Our Strategies
As these strategies are so critical to Fruitful Work, we are spending the coming months discussing, praying over and developing detailed content under each of the below sub-points, ensuring we can offer exceptional and biblical guidance.
THOSE WHO abide in me and i in them bear much fruit
John 15:5
What is Kingdom Impact?
We believe that Kingdom Impact is the coming of Jesus’ kingdom in this World: it’s the impact that Jesus' ministry was always achieving. It’s the fruit that Jesus wants us to bear. It’s the act of making disciples of Jesus - and those disciples transforming the World.
Inspiring Radical Generosity
All of us are called to be radically generous in response to God’s radical generosity. God has given everything to us, and just like the widow at the temple, we should give everything back to Him.
Radical generosity is a level of giving which is both sacrificial and shocking
Radical giving is what Jesus has called us to do
Radical giving can heal the world
Radical giving can heal our hearts
As students we should start now
Informing Career Choices
We believe that the right choice of career can lead to a multiplication of kingdom impact. The three routes we emphasise are gospel patronage, full-time ministry, and leadership in ‘discipleship influencing’ fields.
Our contexts means that being strategic and often sacrificial in our choice of career path, and the pursuit of that career path, can increase our impact many fold.
Some career paths have obvious opportunities for kingdom impact, particularly those that give us Kingdom influence over people’s beliefs, values and actions. Examples of this include: earning to give; ministry; mission start-ups; education; politics; legal reform; economic reform; artificial intelligence.
Whatever career route is taken, impact can be increased through attaining positions of leadership or positions that give influence over others, or by addressing the biggest gospel problems in that career space.
Raising Up Gospel Patrons who Earn to give
Due to its accessibility and potential, we have a special focus on gospel patronage. We believe the biggest impact many of us can make is to pursue a high earning career and use our earnings to fund the Gospel.
Gospel patronage is pursuing a career to generate the resources to meet Kingdom needs
There are strong Biblical and historical precedents of Christians being impactful through pursuing this route
Gospel patronage is, if we have to gifts to do it, an easy way to make very tangible, significant kingdom impact
Gospel patronage is dangerous. The best protection is through being sacrificial in it
Focusing on Impact and Effectiveness
We believe Jesus wants us to use our talents wisely and to be good stewards of His resources. Therefore by ‘effectiveness’ we mean wisely deploying our limited resources for the maximum kingdom impact.
Jesus cares about impact
Eternal souls means the stakes are so high
We have to use our heads to be impactful: we need to work smart as well as hard; we shouldn’t just follow our hearts
We should focus on the biggest Kingdom needs which our particular gifts and abilities enable us to address, helping each person reach their fullest potential
To be impactful our first priority must still be our relationship with Jesus