Business and trades people in our churches are not fully using their gifts and experience towards God’s Kingdom purposes.
This post explores that a little, and proposes a few changes that might help.
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Why do we not see more working class folks sent by the UK church into mission? Three barriers are explored, and some broad solutions proposed.
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Book review: The Gospel at Work, by Seb Traeger and Greg Gilbert
Four and a half stars
Read our review of this excellent concise resource for those in the workplace, or those seeking to disciple them.
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Why we don’t want to concentrate our efforts on the influential and wealthy in society… and what that has to do with “trickle-down” economic theory…
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Book review: Scatter (go therefore and take your job with you)
4 stars. Well-written, and a relevant call to action and global mission for today’s culture, though could explore some issues with the workplace missions model in terms of training and support.
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Does having a dual role (bivocationalism) mean that we have dual purposes in our life and ministry?
This article argues that this does not need to be the case, and that a one-size-fits-all approach to church development processes may miss some valuable models in use across the majority world.
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Students -this is for you. What could you be doing with your business course, or trades apprenticeship?
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Seven practical steps to starting along a missional business pathway. What's stopping you?!
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On the back of several conversations in the UK, here's some thoughts on how the UK church could look to act within a multi-cultural missionary setting.
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There are long-standing debates on the mission of God's people, centred around a proclamation based evangelism versus social justice. But quite aside from purpose or objective, is there a more basic question: do we accept injustice as Christ's followers?
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Churches leading to churches. It's an Acts model as the good news of Christ spreads. But does all this mention of churches mean there's only a role for "clergy" - the trained officers of the church?
This article posits 6 reasons why missional business and church planting are linked, opening up a conversation as to how business people serve with an ultimate purpose of seeing long-term sustainable churches in places where Christ is not known.
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The church sends mission workers. But how do we discern who should be sent? Are there key criteria? This article starts a conversation for Mission through Business...
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We are called to be shrewd as we carry out our Lord's purposes in mission. One of the key decisions for missional business people is "what type of business should we run?"
The post introduces some ideas and highlights some of the pros and cons.
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How do we discern God's will? In our businesses? In our lives? With reflection to a God given desire to cross barriers and make Jesus known?
Mueller had some good things to say on this topic which bear repeating. Read this blog for more...
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Mutuality matters (part 2) - are we called to maximise profit in missional business?
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