Evangelism is not working …. but it could be

Amongst all the huff and puff, wailings and gnashing of teeth about the state of the Church, one central fact has been overlooked… the bulk of church-generated initiatives have nothing to do with the way people spend the bulk of their waking hours. That’s why over 50% of evangelicals have never heard a sermon on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]