Specifically, God’s original plan finds the true shalom through our participation. Therefore, kingdom-based social ministry resides in the local church journeying towards Jesus-loving, serving, and blessing its neighbors and community.įinally, kingdom-based social ministry is based on missio Dei per imago Dei, which means that as God is a missionary, sending God, Christians who are created in the image of God and called as an instrument for God’s mission are also by nature missional and are to give their vocational selves to the world. As a result, it loves and serves others so that God can transform and change the community. Rather, the local church’s mission seeks, points to, serves, and represents the kingdom of God. It does not place Christianity in the center of society.
The local church is like the kingdom of heaven described in Matt 13:33. Here the local church refers to people who begin a spiritual journey towards Christ and cooperate for the sake of God’s kingdom. These inclinations are the prime mover of creating kingdom-based social impact. BAM practitioners and local Christians are inclined to seek others’ interest and holistic transformation of a community. By creating space for moral demands and categories, BAM businesses and the local church connect those who want to help with those in need and seek the well-being of all. The results of this study indicate that the local church serves as a central source of generating Kingdom-based social capital in partnership with BAM companies. Next, kingdom-based social ministry is tightly bound up with the local church. It also seeks social responsibility and interdependence for the flourishing of humanity, which focuses on prioritizing others above ourselves and being willing to pursue good life together and to receive good life together. To begin, the core of the propositions for defining social ministry that is Kingdom-based is that all manner of Kingdom-based social ministry points to God’s general revelation, which concerns social justice and shalom. In reviewing the literature and investigating current practice, strong relationships exist between Kingdom-based social ministry and both the Spirit of prayer and church-centered moral demands and categories. I want to propose a conceptual definition of Kingdom-based social ministry, reviewing both the literature and my own semi-structured interviews from The Asbury Project, a gathering of Christian social entrepreneurs. To put my concern in the form of a set of questions: How can we tell the difference between the social impact of non-Christian versus Kingdom-based social enterprises (aka Business-As-Mission, or BAM companies)? What constitutes a social impact that is Kingdom-based?
My doctoral research has been to describe what the appropriate impact of Kingdom-based social organizations might be.
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