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.
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreHow 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...
Read MoreMutuality matters (part 2) - are we called to maximise profit in missional business?
Read MoreMutuality matters - this is the first in a series on Biblical mutuality - the "one another" of business that is so inherent to the exchange of goods/services, yet so lost in the day to day rush of short term shareholder value and profit. Is a Biblical version of mutuality possible in cross-cultural businesses today?
Read MoreWhat does #intentionality actually mean? Is it possible for a business person crossing barriers to be intentional about church planting and discipleship? Do they have the time?
In Part 2 of this blog, J M Bell shares more "on-the-ground" experiences.
Read MoreWhat does #intentionality actually mean? Is it possible for a business person crossing barriers to be intentional about church planting and discipleship? Do they have the time?
J M Bell shares the experiences of one CEO...
Read MoreWhat's our identity? The breakdown of the sacred / secular divide has been rightly championed. But have we gone too far, and forgotten that as they are integrated, the sacred element remains?
That we are first and foremost a people set aside to proclaim Jesus' excellencies, even as we are business people.
Read MoreCan business be a calling? MTB team member JM Bell shares some of his thinking and the opportunities that exist.
Read MoreWhy does this initiative exist? What's the background? Find out how God has used a collaboration of church, business and mission agency to address a gap in the UK and to all nations.
Read MoreWhy mission through business? What lies behind the name of this initiative, and how does it help define who we are?
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