Is it possible to entrepreneurship as a Christian calling? This paper answers to this question by doing a combination of socio-historical and theological approaches. Historically, the ideas of entrepreneurship and its practices are undergoing a meaningful development. While from a theological perspective it delivered an ethical meaning if entrepreneurship located in the frame of a theology of creation and social action to build a common justice. This is all affiliates with mentality of God in the creation process of the world and Jesus’ criticism of a greedy attitude. Paul, furthermore, making entrepreneur-ship is as a constructive way of his service. Eventually, if locating entrepreneur-ship in Rahner’s framework in terms of intellectual, res, and opera, it could be a base of Christian calling to create community welfare and justice. Abstrak Apakah mungkin kewirausahaan menjadi panggilan Kristen? Tulisan ini menjawab pertanyaan tersebut dengan menggabungkan pendekatan sosio-historis dan teologis. Secara historis, gagasan dan praktik kewirausahaan mengalami perkembangan bermakna. Sedangkan, dari perspektif teologis, makna etis kewirausahaan akan lahir kalau diletakkan dalam kerangka penciptaan dan tindakan membangun keadilan Bersama. Hal itu bersesuaian dengan mentalitas Allah dalam proses penciptaan dan kritik Yesus terhadap ketamakan. Paulus, lebih jauh lagi menjadikan kewirausahaan sebagai jalan pelayanan yang konstruktif. Akhirnya, dengan meletakannya dalam kerangka intellectus, res dan opera-nya Karl Rahner, kewirausahaan bisa dijadikan dasar bagi panggilan Kristen untuk menciptakan kesejahteraan dan keadilan masyarakat

This research analyzes the shifting of management of God's Kingdom to focus on saving human resources in the economic site due to COVID-19. The old paradigm of management of God's Kingdom, which is to save human resources biblically, shifts to humans from the low economic condition. This study aims to redefine the shifting of management of God's Kingdom as the form of human resources development from the economic perspective. This study systematically presents the economy's condition due to COVID-19, the Church's response to it, and the redefinition of God's Kingdom management through the descriptive qualitative method. This research confirms the redefinition of management of God's Kingdom as the Church's response to help human resources. Finally, this research aims to give out some charity programs and skill training in saving human resources in responding to the economic downward due to COVID-19.

Konflik selalu membawa dampak bagi para pihak yang berkonflik. Berdampak buruk, apabila konflik tidak dapat diselesaikan dengan baik. Dan sebaliknya, apabila konflik dapat diselesaikan dengan baik, justru dapat membangun stabilitas komunal. Menghindar atau menarik diri dari konflik adalah salah satu cara para pihak berkonflik dalam menyelesaikan konflik. Sekalipun, hal tersebut tidak sepenuhnya bisa menyelesaikan konflik. Seperti yang dialami oleh Komunitas TM, pasca konflik yang terjadi di tahun 2007, yang menyebabkan komunitas ini memisahkan diri dari GKJ TA. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan sejarah konflik, faktor-faktor penyebab pemisahan, upaya rekonsiliasi pasca pemisahan, serta menjelaskan kondisi Komunitas TM pasca pemisahan. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dengan studi kasus. Dari hasil analisis ditemukan bahwa rekonsiliasi konflik berlangsung cukup lama. Pemisahan Komunitas TM dari GKJ TA cukup dapat meredam konflik dan menjadi harapan baru bagi Komunitas TM untuk membangun jemaat dan kembali berjalan beriringan dengan GKJ TA juga gereja-gereja se-Sinode GKJ. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemisahan bisa menjadi mekanisme rekonsiliasi dan membantu Komunitas TM untuk membangun keutuhan jemaat, sehingga pembangunan jemaat pasca konflik berjalan maksimal.

This paper aims at elucidating the meaning of economic works from the Scripture, the Christian Bible’s Wisdom Books. Making use of the hermeneutics approach, more particular of Gadamer’s theoretical framework, this paper is to dialogue the meaning of economic works in the past with the modern’s perspective of works. Eventually, there had been a similarity between both meanings of works biblical-based and modern one i.e. if human being wants to be wealthy and meaningful person, in the theological perspective, should make it harmony between a hard and diligent works with the tenets of faith to God. It is based on such an idea, the church could and enabled to develop a theology or ethics of works particularly in the field of economic.

Education is understood as the institution creating human resources capable of making a better society in facing social change. However, education becomes the object of social change when education must submit to the development of the industrial world. The hidden curriculum is taught to prepare human resources to fulfil the market’s needs. Education is prepared to work for people who have capital as known terminology, capitalism. The growth of technology and its equipment make education a private and expensive institution economically, whereas unfortunate people cannot participate. Therefore, it creates incapable human resources to fill the free-market vacancy, and religious education is placed in the midpoint. The inequality of supply in human resource skills towards the demand for working space forms the unstable demand and supply curves. As a result, the shifting curve of the Short-Run Aggregate Supply of human capital moves toward supporting capitalism to stand still. Through the sociological approach, the perspective emic discovers the problematic fundamental for religious education is facing a social change. The dilemma of religious education leads to legitimate the path of capitalism in the education area (or market). The result revisits religious education to bring the equilibrium point between the product and the quality of human resources in a new form of academic capitalism by transferring religious values based on local wisdom and integrating curriculum between religious and non-religious subjects.