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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: iccc.indonesia@yahoo.com

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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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.

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