Competing with Purpose: Transforming Care in a Care-Less Market

David M. Benson; Darren Cronshaw

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Pages:: 79–103

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696235_007

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In the wake of the 2016 Australian Government Productivity Commission Report, the Human Services sector and not-for-profit providers were radically disrupted. While intended to care for ‘the least of these’ on society’s margins, now they must face a deregulated market with competition, contestability, and informed user choice. How, then, can faith-based providers respond to the political mandate which seemingly requires that they ‘compete or die’, while remaining true to their justice mandate? This chapter integrates insights from the Sci-Fi movie Arrival and a theology of sport with gifts released in professional rugby league contest, to craft a distinctively Christian worldview and definition of competition as striving together for shalom and salvation. Transforming justice work as ‘competing with purpose’, a theology of competition invites us into missio Dei to cultivate the world, repent over false promises, bless the least of these, love sacrificially, reconcile with competing providers as a community of character, and celebrate quality human service that fosters flourishing. In this fragile market of cold calculation, care must emerge from radical grace which alone has the superabundant power of disrupting customary economic relations.

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Transforming Work

Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World

Series: Theology and Mission in World Christianity, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004696235

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2024

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