God@Work – God calls a Call Centre

Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting a good friend at her work place, a call centre.
I met her staff as well, and after work other ex-staff members started to drop in. One of them, Alisha, came in to say goodbye before heading off to her Muslim country for 8 weeks. My friend asked her [...]

Business as mission

The greatest “unrealized potential” in the Christian movement for the next 20 years probably rests on the shoulders of Christian business people. That’s great news for every Christian person who loves business. Talk about a life of adventure. What more could you ask for when your faith and your love for business intersect?
The marketplace is [...]

Your work matters to God

by Derek Brown
Each of us spends a large amount of our time working – either in paid employment or in other forms of work. But for many, work is only something we do to survive; it has no relationship to our Christian faith. Ken Costa, a London-based investment banker, in his book ‘God at Work’ [...]

Bridging the Sunday – Monday gap

By Derek Brown
For many Christians the highlight of their week is the Sunday service. Sadly many believe this is where the Kingdom of God is primarily expressed. Ministry is confined to that which is done within the church. This is demonstrated in the true story of a young lawyer who was asked what her ministry [...]

Ten Paradigm Shifts Toward Community Transformation

by Eric Swanson
A small cloud is on the horizon. The winds of change are beginning to gather strength and with certainty a storm is coming…change is coming. All over our world there is a quiet movement of the Spirit of God that is causing believers to re-examine how they “do church.” Churches are throwing out [...]

Market Place Ministry

Excerpts from Lausanne paper
`In Scripture there is no ancient or modern, eastern or western dualistically derived gap between private and public, faith and work, charity and justice. There we have many images of God as a worker (Genesis 1-2, John 5:17, Revelation 21:5), specifically as shepherd (Psalm 23), warrior (Exodus 15:3), teacher (Psalm 143:10, Proverbs [...]

Building Monday’s church

by Brian Medway
We are facing a long term problem in the church. We have the right doctrine, we have good preaching and teaching capabilities and we have access to every kind of resource we can name in order to do our job, but we are not doing our job.
Despite the succession of short term relationships [...]

Impacting the Market Place

by Peter Kentley
Introduction
To help gain an understanding of how God is moving in the marketplace today it is helpful to look at three paradigm shifts in the Church in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries:
19th Century Church Paradigm
Village Model
• Church objective was the village
• The village by and large lived the Eph 4:6 Christian life: [...]

We have a Marketplace Faith

 
by Peter Kentley

The Christian faith started outside the temple. Jesus grew up as a carpenter. When it was time for public ministry he worked in the marketplace with fishermen and a tax collector. His parables were marketplace stories and his healings happened often in marketplace situations.
Why is the marketplace important as a place of ministry?
Our [...]