The Ideas we inherit – and the things we are passing on

Stalin famously said ‘ideas are more powerful than guns’.  Ideas change our thinking and as our thinking changes, so does our behavior and our actions. Recently I have been looking back at times in history when business and mission have been connected. Although the term ‘business as mission’ is a fairly new one, there have [...]

Christian faith and Chinese productivity

  By Christopher Landau BBC News, Wenzhou, China   At first glance, it looks as though it could be any other factory driving the rapid development of the Chinese economy. But this is no ordinary enterprise because here religious faith is as important as profit. In fact, the owner of the Boteli Valve Group in [...]

Business as mission

March 2010 Missional shift within churches Leadership conducted a survey in May 2008 asking nearly 700 evangelical pastors how their perceptions of the gospel and mission currently compare with their understanding a decade ago. The results clearly indicate that pastors’ attitudes and beliefs are shifting. When asked if “the kingdom of God is a present [...]