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ICCC (INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE) ADALAH MIMBAR DIMANA PESAN KRISTUS
BAGI KITA DI ZAMAN INI
DIJABARKAN, DIBAGIKAN DAN DINYATAKAN TERHADAP DUNIA
BISNIS
NATIONAL BOARD
National President Tonny Soetjoadi Vice Presidents:
Admin/Secretary Abraham Setiabudi
Finance/Treasurer: Johanis S. Najoan
Membership/Mentoring/ Network Simon Aditan
Teaching / Training Juwono
Business Development/ Micro-Enterprise Umbu Pekuwali
Intercessors Mohan U. Vasandani
(Mrs.) Josephine S. Sitorus BOARD OF ADVISORS
Bunan Djambek
Eliezer H. Hardjo
Manimbul L. Sitorus
Kantor Nasional ICCC Indonesia:
Website: www.iccc-indonesia.com Pertokoan Pulo Mas Blok B I / 8, Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan. Jakarta 13260
Telp (021) 4890211, fax: (021) 4722274. E-mail: [email protected]
From the desk of National President
Shalom, Welcome to the New Year 2015, a year of full hope and opportunity. Betapapun keadaan yang berada di sekeliling kita dan berbagai tanda-tanya yang terbentang di hadapan kita ketika kita menginjakkan kaki di tahun yang baru ini, kita harus tetap memiliki keyakinan dan ketetapan hati bahwa Tuhan akan
membawa kita seperti IA menuntun Abraham ke Tanah Kanaan dan menjadikannya sebagai Bapa orang percaya atau orang beriman. Tuhan mengikat perjanjian kekal yang tidak dapat dibatalkan bahwa Abraham dan keturunannya akan menjadi berkat bagi bangsa-bangsa. Dlam klausul Perjanjian tersebut dinyatakan bahwa barangsiapa yang memberkati akan diberkati dan barangsiapa yang mengutuk akan dikutuk. Firman Tuhan Ya dan Amin, maka apa yng dijanjikan-Nya digenapi. Kita adalah keturunan ilahi dari Abraham yang berhak mewarisi dan menerima janji-janji yang Tuhan berikan kepada Abraham. “Dan jikalau kamu adalah milik Kristus, maka kamu juga adalah keturunan Abraham dan berhak menerima janji Allah.” (Galatia 3: 29). Kita patut bersyukur sebagai para pewaris dalam Kristus. Janji Tuhan yang lain yang juga menjadi pegangan kita adalah: “Sebab Aku ini mengetahui rancangan-rancangan apa yang ada pada-Ku mengenai kamu, demikianlah firman TUHAN, yaitu rancangan damai sejahtera dan bukan rancangan kecelakaan, untuk memberikan kepadamu hari depan yang penuh harapan.”(Yesaya 29: 11) Kami mohon dukungan dari Anda sekalian atas rencana mengadakan Annual Members Gathering (AMG) di Bali sekitar bulan Maret 2015 sekaligus untuk meneguhkan ICCC Bali Sub-Chamber dan pemilihan Kepemimpinan ICCC Indonesia yang baru. Mari kita juga dukung dalam doa rencana kunjungan ke Timor Leste untuk membantu pembukaan ICCC Chamber disana sesuai dengan penugasan yang berikan oleh International Office. Sehubungan dengan gangguan kesehatan yang memerlukan perawatan intensif, maka National President saat ini dibantu oleh tiga orang senior member ICCC Indonesia: Johanis S. Najoan, Manimbul Luhut Sitorus dan Eliezer H. Hardjo, sebagai care-taker sampai waktu Pemilihan yang baru pada bulan Maret 2015 tersebut. Dalam kesempatan ini juga saatnya kami mengingatkan para pengurus dan anggota untuk memperpanjang keanggotaan ICCC International tahun 2015, sesuai dengan ketentuan berlaku dan bagi yang belum bergabung kami undang dan ajak bergabung dalam wadah pelayanan luar biasa ini yang sangat fokus terhadap dunia usaha, pekerjaan dan bisnis, dengan menerapkan prinsip-prinsip Kerajaan Allah. Sampai jumpa di edisi yang akan datang. Tuhan Yesus Memberkati. Tonny Soetjoadi National President ICCC Indonesia www.iccc-indonesia.com
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MEMBERSHIP FEE
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6 Characteristics of Leaders
Who Finish Well “Time flies!”
Paul Sohn • December 19, 2014
With only two weeks left of 2014, these two
words seem to be the most popular
expressions around this season.
Now, let’s do a post-mortem for this year.
How was 2014 for you? To be more precise,
how did you fare in relation to your New
Years Goals you set earlier in the year?
If you’re like me, you may be an enthusiastic
self-start but a lousy finisher. You may have
succumbed to the forces of status quo. You
have fallen victim to your habits. This is no
surprise. In fact, neuroscience shows that
88% of New Year’s Resolutions fail. If you’re
in the 12%, congratulations! (Comment
below so I can learn your secret) However, if
you’re like me, we have some work to do.
Bobby Clinton who has studied biblical
leaders makes a poignant observation that
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few leaders finish well. There are around 800
or so leaders mentioned in the Bible. There
are about 100 who have data that helps you
interpret their leadership. About 50 of these
have enough data for evaluation of their
finish. About 1 in 3 finished well. Anecdotal
evidence from today indicates that this ratio
is probably generous. Probably less than 1 in
3 are finishing well today.
Bobby Clinton, professor of leadership at
Fuller Theological Seminary, shares six
characteristics of individuals who finished
well.
1. They maintain a personal vibrant
relationship with God right up to the
end.
Daniel is the classic O.T. leader who
exemplifies this. In the N.T., Peter, Paul and
John all demonstrate this. See their last
writings—the tone, the touch with God, the
revelation from God, their trust in enabling
grace for their lives.
2. They maintain a learning posture
and can learn from various kinds of
sources— life especially.
Daniel is the classic O.T. leader who
exemplifies this. See Daniel chapter nine for a
late in life illustration of one who continues to
study and learn from the Scriptures. Paul and
Peter are the classic N.T. leaders with a
learning posture (see 2Pe 3:18 and 2Ti 4:13).
3. They manifest Christ-likeness in
character as evidenced by the fruit of
the Spirit in their lives.
Daniel is the classic O.T. leader who
exemplifies godliness (See the summary
references to him in Eze 14:14,20). In the
N.T. note the evidence of character
transformation in Paul’s life (2Ti 2:24 and an
illustration of it—the book of Phm). These
were men who over a lifetime moved from
strong
4. Truth is lived out in their lives so that
convictions and promises of God are
seen to be real.
Joshua’s statement about God’s promises
never having failed him in his closing speech
demonstrate this characteristic of someone
believing God and staking his life on God’s
truth (Jos 23:14). See the many aside truth
statements that Paul weaves into his two
letters to Timothy. See his famous stirring
convictions echoed in Ac 27:22-25.
5. They leave behind one or more
ultimate contributions.
In a study on legacies left behind by effective
leaders who finished well I have identified the
following categories: saint, practitioners,
mentors, public rhetoricians, pioneers,
crusaders, artists, founder, stabilizer,
researchers, writers, promoters.
Examples: Daniel’s ultimate contributions
include: saint, (mentor), writer, stabilizer.
Paul’s ultimate contributions include: saint,
mentor, pioneer, crusader, writer, promoter.
Of course, in addition to these standard
categories there are also unique legacies that
leaders also leave behind. These have to be
described individually for each leader.
6. They walk with a growing awareness
of a sense of destiny and see some or all
of it fulfilled.
A sense of destiny is an inner conviction
arising from an experience or a series of
experiences in which there is a growing sense
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of awareness that God has His hand on a
leader in a special way for special purposes.
Over a lifetime a leader is prepared by God
for a destiny, receives guidance toward that
destiny, and increasingly completes that
destiny. No Biblical leader who accomplished
much for God failed to have a sense of
destiny, one that usually grew over his/her
lifetime.
Examples: Joseph’s dreams and his saving of
the embryonic nation; Moses’ saving of the
nation; Paul’s vision to take the Gospel to the
Gentiles.
Question: What needs to change in your
life to finish well?
International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) lahir dari kepatuhan terhadap visi yang diberikan selama kurun waktu enam tahun kepada seorang usahawan Swedia J. Gunnar Olson, yang diteguhkan dengan nubuatan dan terbukanya pintu kesempatan disekitarnya yang sebelumnya tertutup.
ICCC merupakan panggilan yang serius dan menantang bagi pengusaha Kristen untuk mengenali jaman yang sedang kita masuki dan dengan terang dari pengenalan itu memasuki dimensi iman yang baru yang disediakan bagi mereka yang …” takut akan TUHAN … berbicara satu sama lain … dan menghormati namaNya.” (Maleakhi 3: 16) Visi ini memanggil para pengusaha dan kaum profesi di seluruh dunia yang terbeban untuk saling berhubungan, bertukar pendapat, memperdagang-kan barang dan menyediakan jasa, saling mendukung dan menguatkan secara rohani dan materi. Berdasarkan eksistensi dari visi itu sendiri memproklamirkan otoritas Kristus yang mutlak diseluruh dunia.
Pada intinya ICCC adalah kehendak TUHAN untuk memperluas tali kasih-Nya, melalui gereja-Nya, didalam dunia usaha. Hal ini menuntut para pelaku bisnis mencari terlebih dahulu Kerajaan-Nya dan segala Kebenaran-Nya. Urapan tersedia bagi mereka yang dengan mata melihat dan telinga mendengar panggilan jaman. Sebagaimana halnya Raja Daud yang menerima urapan untuk menjadi raja, jauh sebelum dia menjadi Raja, yang keadaan pada saat urapan diberikan sama sekali tidak mungkin bagi Daud untuk menjadi Raja, demikianlah ICCC memanggil para pengusaha Kristen sebelum peristiwanya terjadi untuk mengalami kebebasan masuk ke dalam dimensi baru, dimana sasaran, strategi dan perencanaan bersama-sma diwujud-nyatakan sesuai dengan iman di dalam Kristus. ICCC mencanangkan panggilan itu sejalan dengan rencana TUHAN bagi jaman ini sebagai kunci memperoleh berkat dan pertumbuhan dan agar dapat bangkit berkemenangan diatas gelombang ombak yang mengancam. Panggilan ICCC: “Mereka akan menjadi milik
kesayanganKu sendiri, firman TUHAN semesta Alam pada
hari yang Kusiapkan. Aku akan mengasihi mereka sama
seperti seseorang menyayangi anaknya yang melayani dia.
Maka kamu akan melihat kembali perbedaan antara orang
benar dan orang fasik, antara orang yang beribadah
kepada TUHAN dan orang yang tidak beribadah kepada-
Nya.” (Maleakhi 3: 17-18)
KEYAKINAN IMAN ICCC: Satu-satunya TUHAN pencipta segala sesuatu
dalam kesatuan Trinitas: Bapa, Anak, dan Roh
Kudus.
Keilahian TUHAN Yesus Kristus. Kelahiran-Nya
dari rahim seorang Perawan. Karya penebusan dosa manusia melalui kematian-Nya diatas kayu
salib. Kebangkitan-Nya. Hak otoriatas diri-Nya
atas dunia dan Kedatangan-Nya yang kedua kali
dalam Kuasa dan Kemuliaan-Nya.
Alkitab, sepenuhnya sebagai Firman TUHAN yang
mem8berikan inspirasi dan berbagai peraturan bagi kehidupan yang dilandasi iman.
Keselamatan pribadi orang berdosa dan kebutuhannya untuk mengalami proses
regenerasi melalui8 karya Roh Kudus dalam
menuju menjadikannya sebagai manusia yang dikehendaki oleh TUHAN, seutuhnya.
VISI DAN TUJUAN ICCC
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Transformed Working Life (TWL) adalah Pelatihan resmi dari Kantor Internasional bagi anggota ICCC dalam memperlengkapi anggota dengan pengetahuan dan pemahaman latar belakang, tujuan dan penerapan prinsip-
prinsip Kerajaan TUHAN bagi dunia bisnis dan profesi. TWL diperuntukkan bagi anggota dan dapat diikuti secara Cuma-Cuma, namun terbuka juga bagi siap2a saja yang berminat untuk mengikutinya.
TWL diselenggarakan dalam bahasa
Indonesia dan dilengkapi dengan buku panduannya, yang telah diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia juga, sehingga para peserta betul-betul akan memperoleh manfa’at yang besar dan mengalami transformasi dalam kehidupan pribadi maupun bisnisnya. TWL difasilitasi oleh anggota National Board yang terlatih dan dikoordinir oleh V.P. Teaching: Benjamin B. Juwono bersama dengan Teaching Team: Johanis S. Najoan dan Eliezer H. Hardjo Transformed Working Life (TWL) akan ditayangkan dalam salah satu channel di Indonesia agar dapat dimanfaatkan oleh para pebisnis & profesional Kristiani di Indonesia bagaimana menerapkan prinsip-prinsip Kerajaan Tuhan dalam kehidupan berbisnis dan bekerja mereka. TWL bagi members secara rutin diadakan pada hari Sabtu ke 2 setiap bulan dan terbuka dan dianjurkan bagi semua member untuk mengikutinya sebagai pembekalan wajib.
12 Keys to a More
Powerful Prayer Life By Pastor Rick Warren
Years ago, an old saint shared with me
twelve prayer principles from the life of Jesus
Christ. It made such a difference in my
personal prayer life. There are only 17
references to Jesus praying and most of them
are in the book of Luke.
1. The principle of ILLUMINATION.
Luke 3:21-22 says, “When all the people
were being baptized, Jesus was baptized
too. And as He was praying, heaven opened
and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in
bodily form like a dove. And a voice came
from heaven, ‘You are My Son whom I
love. With You I am well pleased.” The
setting here was Jesus’ baptism and this is
the first recorded example of Jesus’ praying
and we see in the book of Luke three results
of His praying.
Heaven opened up.
The Holy Spirit came down.
The Father spoke.
These are three results when we make
contact with God in our prayers. Symbolically,
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heaven opens up and we receive God’s
blessing. The Holy Spirit fills our lives afresh.
And the Father speaks to us. If you’d like to
know the Spirit’s power in your life, if you’d
like God to speak to you, you must practice
the prayer life of Jesus.
2. The principle of ISOLATION.
Luke 5:16 says, “Jesus often withdrew to
lonely places and prayed.” “Often” means it
was His habit. He did it in places where He
was all by Himself. I believe this is absolutely
essential. We need to spend time alone with
God everyday. Jesus returned again and
again to a lonely place. Find that place where
you can get alone with God, where you can
be isolated and pray aloud and let God speak
to you.
3. The principle of CONCENTRATION.
Luke 6:12 says, “In those days Jesus went
out on the mountainside to pray and He spent
the night praying to God.” Notice it says, “He
spent the night…” Some of the greatest
lessons of my prayer life have been nights
that I have spent in prayer. My decision to
marry my wife was made in a prayer meeting
all night with one other person. Sometimes
when I pray it takes just a few minutes for me
to get my thoughts collected. Sometimes it
takes a long time for me to even get in the
mood. I’ve found that it’s important to spend
extended blocks of time with God so that you
can concentrate on what He wants you to do
and His will for your life.
4. The principle of INSULATION.
The Bible says, “Once when Jesus was
praying in private, the disciples were with
Him.” Notice that the disciples were with him
but He still found time for personal prayer.
This is an important principle because there’s
not always time to get alone by yourself.
There are times when you can’t be isolated. I
think of this as kind of an incubator verse.
Babies can be in the middle of a busy
hospital but they can be incubated in a
situation that protects them from the hustle
and bustle around them. Sometimes I find as
a pastor I just can’t get alone, but I can have
an attitude of isolation or insulation and I can
be silent even in the middle of a traffic jam.
My prayer can overcome the interruptions
when I put myself in an attitude of insulation.
5. The principle of TRANSFORMATION.
We find this in Luke 9:28-29. “He took Peter,
John and James with Him and went up on a
mountain to prayer. As He was praying the
appearance of His face changed and His
clothes became as bright as a flash of
lightening.” Prayer changes you. Do you think
it’s possible to spend so much time with God
that when you come away your face shows
it?
2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “We all with unveiled
faces behold the glory of the Lord.” As we
look on Him “We are transformed from one
degree to another.” The word in that passage
is the word katoptrizo. It’s the only time that
word is used in the entire Bible. It means, ”to
seriously look at, to contemplate, to meditate,
to gaze on like somebody gazing in a
mirror.” As we gaze on the word, as we
reflect on the word, like a mirror reflects, we
become more and more like Christ. And we’re
transformed.
6. The principle of EXEMPLIFICATION.
Luke 11:1 says, “One day Jesus was praying
in a certain place and when He finished one
of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to
pray just as John taught his disciples.’” Notice
it does not say, “Teach us how to pray,”
which is often misquoted. It says “Teach us to
pray.” I would suggest that this is a
dangerous prayer to pray. We should not
pray this request unless we really mean it,
because God will often use trials and
hardships and difficulties to teach us to pray.
7. The principle of PRESERVATION.
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In Luke 22:31-32 Jesus says, “Simon, Simon.
Satan has asked to sift you as wheat but I
have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith
may not fail. When you have turned back,
strengthen your brothers.” This is a prayer of
protection. We don’t just believe in prayer, we
believe in God. Jesus not only saves you but
He prays for you. Robert Murray
McCheyne once said, “If I could hear Christ
praying for me in the next room, I would not
fear a million enemies.” God is praying for us
right now. Jesus is seated at the right hand of
the Father making intercession for us.
8. The principle of PREPARATION.
In Luke 22:42 Jesus prays “Father, if You are
willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will
but Yours be done.” Notice the change in this
prayer. First, He said, take it away from Me.
Then He said, “Lord, leave it.” He prayed
earnestly. Why? Because He knew He would
be facing in the next few hours the greatest
trial of His life and He didn’t want to approach
it prayerlessly.
9. The principle of REVELATION.
This is the prayer that Jesus prayed on the
cross. One of the seven last words of Christ
was, “Father, forgive them for they do not
know what they’re doing.” We can really learn
a lot about Christ’s character here because
He’s in agony. He’s in pain, yet He’s praying
for other people. When you watch what other
people say and do and pray when their back
is up against the wall, it reveals what’s really
inside of them. Prayer, like nothing else, is
revelation of a person. It shows what’s inside
the heart.
10. The principle of SATISFACTION.
In Luke 22:46, “Jesus cried out with a loud
voice, ‘Father, into Thy hands I commit My
Spirit.’ When He said this, He breathed His
last.” Jesus satisfied God the Father because
He did what He was supposed to do. But
more than just that, Jesus was satisfied
Himself with what He had done. Because of
that – that He had satisfied the Father and He
was satisfied with Himself – He can satisfy
every need that you will ever have. He said,
“I’ve finished it all. It’s all complete.”
11. The principle of GRATIFICATION.
Jesus expressed His gratitude for what God
had done in His life. It says that when He was
at the table with the twelve, He broke bread,
He gave thanks and He broke it and began to
give it to them. He gave thanks. This is
probably the one sin that is the root of so
many other sins – ingratitude.I believe our
prayers should be filled with thanksgiving. In
Philippians it says, “Make your requests with
thanksgiving.” When we ask, we should also
be grateful at the same time.
12. The principle of BENEDICTION.
Luke 24:50 says, “When He had led them out
to the vicinity of Bethany, He lifted up His
hands and He blessed them.” It’s interesting
to me that the very last thing Jesus did was
hold His hands out and He blessed them. He
holds His hands out so they would see the
scars that are in His palms. It is no wonder
that when He went to bless them and held out
His scarred hands that they went from there
immediately and left to spend ten days in
prayer.
Terimakasih anda telah meluangkan waktu membaca
Berita ICCC Indonesia ini dan silahkan mem-forward-
nya ke rekan bisnis anda agar memperoleh berkat rohani
yang sama.
Redaksi