Finding God's Will for Your Career
Recently came across this article from Scott McKnight. Here's the two paragraph teaser, but you should read the full article from Relevant Magazine by clicking here.
How can we figure out what God wants us to do?
Recently came across this article from Scott McKnight. Here's the two paragraph teaser, but you should read the full article from Relevant Magazine by clicking here.
I know people who are lawyers and who drive big machines and who are school teachers and who are coaches and who are selling insurance and who are accountants and who are science research professors and who are dentists and who are pastors and who are missionaries. What each of these people does matters. I kept thinking about this word—matters. I’m unconvinced that some jobs —the so-called “spiritual” ones—are valuable while others are “secular” and therefore not as valuable.
Many are struggling to discover a career that matters. Perhaps the reason so many today flounder from one job to another is because instead of examining what they do in light of the Kingdom, they fail to realize that what they are doing really does matter. (Unless they are paid to be professional spammers, which can’t be Kingdom work.) It is time to reconsider what we do in light of the Kingdom dream of Jesus, and I believe His Kingdom vision can turn what we do into something that matters and can give our life purpose.
See Your Vocation through the Kingdom Dream
Your vocation, which in so many ways is unique to you, can genuinely matter if you keep your eyes on the Kingdom of God as your guiding North Star. Teaching matters when you treat your students as humans whom you love and whom you are helping. Coaching soccer matters when you connect kids to the Kingdom. Growing vegetables becomes Kingdom work when we enjoy God’s green world as a gift from Him. Collecting taxes becomes Kingdom work when you treat each person as someone who is made in the image (the Eikon in Greek) of God and as a citizen instead of as a suspect. Jobs become vocations and begin to matter when we connect what we do to God’s Kingdom vision for this world. Sure, there’s scout work involved—like learning English grammar well enough to write clean sentences and reading great writers who can show you how good prose works. Like hours with small children when we are challenged to make some mind-numbing routines into habits of the heart and Kingdom.
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Repurposing Business Training Open to Everyone
Are you tired of “Ready, aim…” then go to another conference? Ron Holt, a business owner in Northern California, says this was his experience. “You’re constantly going to meetings, going to seminars and conferences. You go away very inspired, but there’s no ability, or even framework, to put it into practice.” There has been a tremendous increase in the number of people offering training in what is sometimes called “business as missions” or “kingdom business.” Conferences on work-faith integration are common, and there are websites dedicated to businesspeople wanting to use business for God’s purpose. The blending of God and work is no longer a strange concept. What is rare, however, is practical application.
Brett Johnson is the founder of The Institute for Innovation, Integration & Impact, a Silicon Valley think tank. He and his wife, Lyn, began exploring the integration of work and faith 30 years ago; both have been in business for decades. Johnson says, “We made a strategic decision eight years ago: we knew we could either attend endless conferences on faith- based business, or we could actually help companies do it. We chose to mobilize, train and deploy kingdom businesspeople in nations around the world and skip the conferences.”
The heart of The Institute’s program is an intensive 10-week training covering what the Bible says about every facet of running a business. “When I ask people, ‘How does God market?’ few businesspeople know,” says Johnson. “Looking at the product portfolios of companies led by Christians, few products have been inspired or developed in collaboration with God. Yet we are designed to co-labor with God. It is one of our earliest assignments.” The Repurposing Business® training is geared to align businesses with their highest calling and their intended purpose. People train at The Institute’s headquarters in Saratoga, California or on remote training webinars available to a worldwide audience. In addition, The Institute has training locations in India, South Africa and Indonesia, with new nations being added.
Until now this training has only been offered only to those who have committed to volunteer their time on a Repurposing Business Venture in another nation. “We have trained over 400 people in the past eight years. The curriculum is so powerful that we have seen life-trajectory changes even on those who have not been able travel with us abroad,” Brett Johnson says. “So we have decided to open our training to anyone who has a desire to integrate work and faith. We are inviting employees, entrepreneurs and executives to apply to enter our next training cycle. Each participant will be part of an affinity group so they can collaborate on how to apply the materials in their specific context."
Lyn Johnson has run her own business for 21 years. She sees the value of entrepreneurs and execs being able to dialog the practical application of Biblical truth to their companies. “From our very first work with mid-market companies the CEO’s voiced their loneliness at the top. They commonly told us, ‘We have no one to talk to.’” The Institute has therefore opened their training to entrepreneurs and corporate leaders.
What makes The Institute different from other “business as missions” proponents is their practical experience. They are a business, led by businesspeople, and have repurposed 280 companies in the last eight years. Tish Holt, a recent trainee and business owner commented, “It is not just about information, but transformation: they are not just talking it, but living it… and the next generation is owning it.”
Dr. Joe Awender, who runs a healthcare practice in Redwood City, California says, “Through implementing The Institute’s principles we have seen incredible healing miracles, financial wonders and ways to show God’s love to those in our sphere of influence. God cares about industry as much as he cares about missionaries.” Hal Oates, CEO of Porthos Wine Concierge, went through the training many years ago and attributes his success to the application of the truths in his company. “Our revenues have multiplied fivefold since I went through the Repurposing Business training and my peace of mind has multiplied tenfold since we made God the CEO of Porthos.”
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The Meaning of Business by Christianity Today
Read the full article on the Christianity Today website - Despite many books and conferences in the past decade that frame business as a divine calling, churches still wonder how best to support the businesspeople in their midst, many of whom feel demeaned for not doing "real" ministry.
Jeff Van Duzer, in Why Business Matters to God: (And What Still Needs to Be Fixed) (IVP), offers Business people guidelines for how to think about their role in God's plan. Christianity Today editor at large Rob Moll spoke with the dean and professor of business law and ethics at Seattle Pacific University about whether the free market system is still the best provider of goods and services, and how churches can help Business people face ethically complex choices.
Why does God want people to go into business?
Two answers: to provide goods and services, and to provide meaningful and creative jobs.
Those are two different purpose statements. One has an internal focus, and one, external. Externally, business is the only institution that creates economic value. A university provides intellectual capital but does not make things. Business takes the ideas and commercializes them. It relies on an array of values from other institutions, but it's the only one that adds value into the system. Business plays a key role by creating products and services.
But not every product a business could make is equally valid in the eyes of God. So a Christian in business should ask not only what will maximize the bottom line, but also what product or service could be made, given the core competencies under his control and the assets he is managing, that would best serve his community.
The second piece is that God designed humans to work. They are made in his image: God is a worker. And God's work is creative and meaningful. Business is not the only institution that creates opportunities for work, but it is certainly one of them, and this recent recession would suggest it is a very important one.
What is the purpose of business?
A business should serve—internally, its employees, and externally, its customers. A business exists for certain purposes. One purpose is to provide meaningful work. Another is to provide meaningful goods and services. It does not exist to maximize return on capital investment. There are a variety of things you might include that enable you to achieve those service goals, but you should not do anything that runs afoul of limits. A broad understanding of the notion of sustainability might be shorthand for describing limits. As business pursues what I think are its godly purposes, it must do so in a way that does not transgress the "do no harm" standard of sustainability.
The third purpose is partnership. It's a call for business to recognize its place in a system of institutions that collectively pursue the common good. The common good allows for the flourishing of the community and the individuals who make up that community.
Haven't we seen a flood of books over the past decade arguing that business is not only a legitimate calling for Christians but even a high calling? Why the need to continue highlighting this theme?
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Business Is Our Mission
Guest Post by Alan Lunsford - I have been getting phone calls and emails lately about a movement among businesspeople — inspired, I think, by others whose vocation is in nonprofit ministry — called Business As Mission, or BAM. This has me thinking again about why InsideWork has never identified with BAM.
A decade ago, The Cluetrain Manifesto laid out 95 theses for the emergent marketplace. The first five are particularly instructive:
1. Markets are conversations.
2. Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
3. Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
4. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
5. People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice.
I’m convinced there is a new apologetic of authentic presence in the marketplace. The strength of this presence can be measure by its authenticity. Conversations among human beings sound human…They are conducted in a human voice…the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived…People recognize each other as such [as people rather than institutions] from the sound of this voice…
My initial coolness to BAM was driven by the fact that I didn’t recognize the voice — it didn’t sound like the people I work with, it sounded like missionaries in business suits. More than a few of those voices regard commerce as little more than a front for evangelistic outreach. This is a problem for people like me who believe work is a reflection of God’s image that needs no ulterior motive — people who don’t believe we can express what we believe to be the truth about God, starting with a lie about ourselves.
I find I am not alone in this. A recent post at the Business As Mission Network site notes a similar concern aired at the gathering of “A large group of foundations and high worth individuals:
Foundations expressed frustration in funding requests being “repackaged” as BAM and were particularly interested in having a better understanding of BAM so they could support the movement by making wise grants. They also expressed disappointment that only a few mission agencies were embracing this new strategy seriously – most are still looking at business as only a method of getting a visa and not as a self funding mission strategy way to have a legitimate place to influence employees and community.
I find myself wondering if, for some at least, BAM may be the mirror image of people who go to church so they can troll for business.
I think I understand why a person might view religious activities as a context for acquiring contacts — like the character in The Player who takes a call from the office as he drives across town:
When can you be back?
After my AA meeting.
I didn’t realize you had a drinking problem.
I don’t really, but that’s where all the deals are being made these days.
That may be what drives some missions minded people to insinuate themselves into the world of commerce — because, evangelistically speaking, it seems like, “that’s where all the deals are being made these days.”
Add to that the fact that it’s not getting any easier for traditional cross-cultural missionaries to actually cross cultures. More and more, missionaries are being denied visas to get into . . . or remain . . . in countries where they want to evangelize. And more and more organizations have tried to gain entry to those nations by having their personnel apply for business visas . . . but governments have gotten wise to the approach and it is no longer succeeding. Now some organizations have begun to create “businesses” . . . which are less than businesses . . . to raise funds and get people into countries that are increasingly closed to outsiders. The problem from my viewpoint is that these companies are “Trojan Horses.” They are not the genuine article . . . and will be found out.
Dan Wooldridge and I had a conversation about this with an attorney whose practice serves prominent church and para-church organizations and he told us this is already happening — missionaries presenting themselves as businesspeople have been expelled from some countries, not for preaching the gospel but for misrepresentation. The attorneys are very concerned about this approach. They believe it will eventually affect real businesspeople doing business as expatriate insiders in countries that see no upside to allowing Christian religious workers to proselytize and plant churches among their citizens.
I think the concerns of these attorneys ring true.
To put it plainly: The impatience of some in the nonprofit sector is putting the free and natural voice of Christian people in commerce at risk…people who conduct business as trusted insiders — whose faith stories, bible discussions and open lives doing business spiritually engaged — are put in jeopardy by outsiders who present themselves falsely.
I donʼt believe the geographical expansion of the gospel of God’s kingdom followed the ancient trade routes and Roman roads because vocational missionaries hitchhiked on commercial caravans and sailing ships (though there is little doubt some of that occurred). Iʼm convinced the bigger reason the kingdom migrated the way it did is that merchants, craftsmen, traders, exporters, bankers, scribes, security companies — all sorts of businesspeople — took their faith in Jesus Christ with them into the global marketplace — a marketplace in which they conducted themselves with integrity and skill; building genuine relationships wherever they went. Their influence as agents of God’s kingdom emanated from the marketplace not the “ministry” side.
There is a remarkable, organic movement among businesspeople who understand this…Iʼm convinced itʼs a work of Godʼs Spirit…built on the ancient wisdom of honesty, integrity, win/win negotiations, fair weights and measures, and adding value. People walking this path regard their work as a vocation in and of itself — a calling in the classic sense of that term. They are not trying to earn the right to be heard, they are doing business spiritually engaged. They are not interested in bait and switch transactions in which they hope to be excused for their weak business performance once people understand why they are really there. They believe, with Dorothy Sayers, that work,
…should be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of work itself; and that man, made in God’s image, should make things as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing” (“Why Work?” Creed or Chaos, Sophia Institute Press 1949, page 89).
The world has almost always been, and likely will always be, open to businesspeople who approach working relationships in that spirit.
I’m afraid Business As Mission — at least as I hear it described and see it practiced — is an attempt to put new wine in old wine skins. Not only will it not work in the long term, but it will have a negative affect on the what-you-see-is-what-you-get practices of sincere businesspeople. Itʼs not worth it.
In January 2008, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Vol. 32, No. 1) found about 12 million clergy and laypersons in Christian ministry around the globe — about half a million of them serving in cultures other than their own. Looking at the cost-effectiveness of these dedicated ministry professionals, the research projected the cost per convert (measured in baptisms) at $345,000. I hardly know what to do with that number.
We are in the middle of a great reframing. We are seeing a role reversal in which the influence of religious professionals wanes as the spiritual influence of ordinary workers grows. The vanguard of biblical spirituality isn’t talking about God from church platforms where they are elevated six feet above contradiction nor from within the walls of compounds separated from the world as it is. They embody the good news of God’s kingdom by their lives in the marketplace. Pastors/priests/missionaries/parachurches/theologians will increasingly engage and serve the vision of this emerging tribe of practitioners or they will find themselves increasingly disintermediated from a conversation that no longer depends on — or even requires — their voices.
Since the early 1980s, our friend Brett Johnson has helped 250 companies (in South Africa, India, the United States and Indonesia) repurpose themselves around the principles and practices of the kingdom of God. Brett is clear about the vital nature of being who we say we are:
We are not missions masquerading as business. We do our work with existing business leaders helping them figure out how to align their business both with Godʼs business, and with Scriptural principles for every facet of business.
People who work in that spirit — as expatriates or in their native cultures — cannot be easily replaced by outsiders who are, for some reason, blocked from practicing traditional missions and choose represent themselves as businesspeople. Insiders canʼt be replaced, but — in some contexts — they may be displaced by the actions of people whose behavior generates suspicion instead of trust.
InsideWork supports the efforts of business insiders who add value to their stakeholders and customers and attend to the deep longing in peers who are coming to see in that longing a hunger for God. InsideWork is a business unit, not a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Our business activities are driven by our passion to love God and serve people in the life of commerce we believe is our vocation. We mean no disrespect to ministers and missionaries, but, at the end of the day, we agree with Paul Minear, whose 1954 essay, Work and Vocation in Scripture, declared:
….a book by workers, about workers, for workers—that is the Bible.
To read more from Alan, be sure to check out the InsideWork.net website.
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A decade ago, The Cluetrain Manifesto laid out 95 theses for the emergent marketplace. The first five are particularly instructive:
1. Markets are conversations.
2. Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
3. Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
4. Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
5. People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice.
I’m convinced there is a new apologetic of authentic presence in the marketplace. The strength of this presence can be measure by its authenticity. Conversations among human beings sound human…They are conducted in a human voice…the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived…People recognize each other as such [as people rather than institutions] from the sound of this voice…
My initial coolness to BAM was driven by the fact that I didn’t recognize the voice — it didn’t sound like the people I work with, it sounded like missionaries in business suits. More than a few of those voices regard commerce as little more than a front for evangelistic outreach. This is a problem for people like me who believe work is a reflection of God’s image that needs no ulterior motive — people who don’t believe we can express what we believe to be the truth about God, starting with a lie about ourselves.
I find I am not alone in this. A recent post at the Business As Mission Network site notes a similar concern aired at the gathering of “A large group of foundations and high worth individuals:
Foundations expressed frustration in funding requests being “repackaged” as BAM and were particularly interested in having a better understanding of BAM so they could support the movement by making wise grants. They also expressed disappointment that only a few mission agencies were embracing this new strategy seriously – most are still looking at business as only a method of getting a visa and not as a self funding mission strategy way to have a legitimate place to influence employees and community.
I find myself wondering if, for some at least, BAM may be the mirror image of people who go to church so they can troll for business.
I think I understand why a person might view religious activities as a context for acquiring contacts — like the character in The Player who takes a call from the office as he drives across town:
When can you be back?
After my AA meeting.
I didn’t realize you had a drinking problem.
I don’t really, but that’s where all the deals are being made these days.
That may be what drives some missions minded people to insinuate themselves into the world of commerce — because, evangelistically speaking, it seems like, “that’s where all the deals are being made these days.”
Add to that the fact that it’s not getting any easier for traditional cross-cultural missionaries to actually cross cultures. More and more, missionaries are being denied visas to get into . . . or remain . . . in countries where they want to evangelize. And more and more organizations have tried to gain entry to those nations by having their personnel apply for business visas . . . but governments have gotten wise to the approach and it is no longer succeeding. Now some organizations have begun to create “businesses” . . . which are less than businesses . . . to raise funds and get people into countries that are increasingly closed to outsiders. The problem from my viewpoint is that these companies are “Trojan Horses.” They are not the genuine article . . . and will be found out.
Dan Wooldridge and I had a conversation about this with an attorney whose practice serves prominent church and para-church organizations and he told us this is already happening — missionaries presenting themselves as businesspeople have been expelled from some countries, not for preaching the gospel but for misrepresentation. The attorneys are very concerned about this approach. They believe it will eventually affect real businesspeople doing business as expatriate insiders in countries that see no upside to allowing Christian religious workers to proselytize and plant churches among their citizens.
I think the concerns of these attorneys ring true.
To put it plainly: The impatience of some in the nonprofit sector is putting the free and natural voice of Christian people in commerce at risk…people who conduct business as trusted insiders — whose faith stories, bible discussions and open lives doing business spiritually engaged — are put in jeopardy by outsiders who present themselves falsely.
I donʼt believe the geographical expansion of the gospel of God’s kingdom followed the ancient trade routes and Roman roads because vocational missionaries hitchhiked on commercial caravans and sailing ships (though there is little doubt some of that occurred). Iʼm convinced the bigger reason the kingdom migrated the way it did is that merchants, craftsmen, traders, exporters, bankers, scribes, security companies — all sorts of businesspeople — took their faith in Jesus Christ with them into the global marketplace — a marketplace in which they conducted themselves with integrity and skill; building genuine relationships wherever they went. Their influence as agents of God’s kingdom emanated from the marketplace not the “ministry” side.
There is a remarkable, organic movement among businesspeople who understand this…Iʼm convinced itʼs a work of Godʼs Spirit…built on the ancient wisdom of honesty, integrity, win/win negotiations, fair weights and measures, and adding value. People walking this path regard their work as a vocation in and of itself — a calling in the classic sense of that term. They are not trying to earn the right to be heard, they are doing business spiritually engaged. They are not interested in bait and switch transactions in which they hope to be excused for their weak business performance once people understand why they are really there. They believe, with Dorothy Sayers, that work,
…should be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of work itself; and that man, made in God’s image, should make things as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing” (“Why Work?” Creed or Chaos, Sophia Institute Press 1949, page 89).
The world has almost always been, and likely will always be, open to businesspeople who approach working relationships in that spirit.
I’m afraid Business As Mission — at least as I hear it described and see it practiced — is an attempt to put new wine in old wine skins. Not only will it not work in the long term, but it will have a negative affect on the what-you-see-is-what-you-get practices of sincere businesspeople. Itʼs not worth it.
In January 2008, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Vol. 32, No. 1) found about 12 million clergy and laypersons in Christian ministry around the globe — about half a million of them serving in cultures other than their own. Looking at the cost-effectiveness of these dedicated ministry professionals, the research projected the cost per convert (measured in baptisms) at $345,000. I hardly know what to do with that number.
We are in the middle of a great reframing. We are seeing a role reversal in which the influence of religious professionals wanes as the spiritual influence of ordinary workers grows. The vanguard of biblical spirituality isn’t talking about God from church platforms where they are elevated six feet above contradiction nor from within the walls of compounds separated from the world as it is. They embody the good news of God’s kingdom by their lives in the marketplace. Pastors/priests/missionaries/parachurches/theologians will increasingly engage and serve the vision of this emerging tribe of practitioners or they will find themselves increasingly disintermediated from a conversation that no longer depends on — or even requires — their voices.
Since the early 1980s, our friend Brett Johnson has helped 250 companies (in South Africa, India, the United States and Indonesia) repurpose themselves around the principles and practices of the kingdom of God. Brett is clear about the vital nature of being who we say we are:
We are not missions masquerading as business. We do our work with existing business leaders helping them figure out how to align their business both with Godʼs business, and with Scriptural principles for every facet of business.
People who work in that spirit — as expatriates or in their native cultures — cannot be easily replaced by outsiders who are, for some reason, blocked from practicing traditional missions and choose represent themselves as businesspeople. Insiders canʼt be replaced, but — in some contexts — they may be displaced by the actions of people whose behavior generates suspicion instead of trust.
InsideWork supports the efforts of business insiders who add value to their stakeholders and customers and attend to the deep longing in peers who are coming to see in that longing a hunger for God. InsideWork is a business unit, not a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Our business activities are driven by our passion to love God and serve people in the life of commerce we believe is our vocation. We mean no disrespect to ministers and missionaries, but, at the end of the day, we agree with Paul Minear, whose 1954 essay, Work and Vocation in Scripture, declared:
….a book by workers, about workers, for workers—that is the Bible.
To read more from Alan, be sure to check out the InsideWork.net website.
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Business as Mission to End Poverty: An Interview with the President of Reynolds Food Packaging
Since 2009, Larson has supported Five Talents by fundraising and speaking on behalf of the organization in the Chicago area. In May of 2009, he traveled with Five Talents to Kenya and Uganda as part of a Business as Mission team, where he taught business skills seminars to entrepreneurs. I had the pleasure of traveling with Bob on that trip, and recently had the opportunity to catch up with him to talk about the high calling of his work and fighting poverty.
What has your leadership role at Reynolds taught you the most?
In order to be successful you’ve got to unleash the full potential of the people in the organization. It’s impossible for an organization to succeed unless you do that. You need to have a clear strategy and mission in terms of where you’re trying to take the business, and then make sure that you’ve communicated that well. You provide clarity of roles and responsibilities, then empower people to perform and hold them accountable for results.
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Is the Church telling the complete story?
Guest post by Brian Mosley, President of RightNow - I have a confession … I have been telling an incomplete story.
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People are drawn most often to stories that involve conflict, drama and even some sensationalism. That’s why People Magazine and TMZ are so popular.
A big way our ministry accomplishes our mission is to tell people’s stories. I bet our team has filmed over 1000 stories in the past 10 years.
Anyone who is a storyteller is always looking to tell the best story possible. But sometimes in our pursuit of the “best” story we create an “incomplete” story. Here’s what I mean …
- If you asked most people in the church what kind of “ministry” they are doing … chances are they would give you a ministry activity that shows up on their calendar.
- I teach a Bible study on Tuesday mornings
- I volunteer with YoungLife on Monday nights
- I am going on a mission trip in June
- I tutor kids on Thursday afternoons
These are all great ministries. Certainly ministry can happen as a scheduled event on a calendar. But if we only see ministry as something that we can schedule then we have an incomplete picture.
I believe people have this view of ministry because of the stories we are telling. Most of the stories that we (church leaders) highlight about ministry involves the missionary overseas or the YoungLife volunteer or the team that feeds the homeless. These stories are dramatic, powerful and sometimes even sensational because of the visible results … 200 people came to Christ on that mission trip … that drug-addicted teen turned their life around … over $15,000 was raised for the project. These are great stories and they are fun to tell. But if we only tell these kinds of stories we fail to show people that ministry can happen in the everyday pathways of life too.
I have been guilty of this. As I look back at the stories our team has captured in the past 10 years we have showcased a lot of people doing incredible ministry that shows up somewhere on their calendar.
Last fall we realized we might not be telling a complete story. Our stories might be conditioning people to think of ministry as a compartmentalized part of life and not woven through all of life.
We captured this story as a first step in redefining ministry in and through your job.
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