What Roles do Business as Mission ( BAM ) Leaders Play?

Justin Forman has just written an excerpt Ken Eldred's God is at Work book in the Business as Mission Network Newsletter. If you are just now exploring BAM, It takes us to the next level:Now that I get Business as Mission, who is doing it, what roles do they play, and where are they serving? He identifies nine roles: Founder or manager of a Kingdom business. Those with entrepreneurial or managerial skills are building and leading successful businesses in developing nations. Lender to the poor. Christians are extending microloans to those considered unbankable. They are also providing business and spiritual instruction to loan recipients who typically establish simple cottage industry ventures. Mentor and financier of Kingdom businesses. Christian business professionals are providing the necessary...

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Enterprising Ministry in the Transformational Wave

Introduction: What is Enterpising Ministry and what are Transformational Waves?Chapter 1: Four dimensions to help you find where your Enterprising Ministry fits Chapter 2: Dynamics in the Body of Christ that Shape the Four DimensionsChapter 3: Relationships between Enterprising Ministries - Teams and Task ForcesChapter 4: Give us this day our daily bread: Funding Enterprising Ministr...

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Finding Where You Fit: Waves, Mountains, Locations and Roles

Four Dimensions of Enterprise Ministry It is an empowering revelation to understand which tool you are in the box, which part of the Body of Christ. One way to inquire of the Lord about this is to ask Him where he has anointed your ministry to serve along the following 4 dimensions: The First Dimension to understand is where your ministry fits among the Five Transformational Waves God has been transforming nations in progressive waves of change, each new wave advancing on the foundation laid by the previous wave The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you. - Deuteronomy 7:22 (NIV) Each wave passes over the land, bringing a phase of change to the body...

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The Emerging Church

The Emerging Church is a movement among 20-35 evangelicals. It's an internal conversation in which they biblically examine each component of their relationship with Christ and compare it to the church they grew up loving or hating.They then take their deeply personal relationship with Christ and seek to find their own generational expression of living a missional life. They see the weaknesses and failings of the previous generation of believers and move to avoid them. Yet they seek the council and teaching of the previous generation in ways that boomers never did.In this conversational journey, five areas seem to be in discussion:The nature and methods of worship Biblical interpretation and AuthorityThe roles of women & familyEngaging the culture without engaging sinLiving a missional...

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Intercession and Prophetic Service to the Body of Christ

Intercessory prayer and prophetic ministry have always been present and at work in the body of Christ. Through some denominational groups believed they were alone in their pursuit of the Spirit of God, He was always at work, speaking through those with Ephesians 4"11-12 responsibilities to the body of Christ. I have see no scriptural or natural evidence that those with intercessory and prophetic callings are not on a different spiritual level than others; they are simply naturally drawn to focus on the heavenlies than most. Its very much like a fish pond I walk by every day.The fish pond is situated so that I can almost always see to the bottom, and neither my shadow nor reflection falls across the pond in early morning or evening when I walk by. At first, it seemed that if I stopped to watch...

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About Enterprising Ministry

·We support the Luassanne Covenant as our Statement of Faith, ·Enterprising Ministry's aim is to share tactics, techniques and ideas that integrate business in ways that awaken the global entrepreneur. · We believe that ministry without enterprise is like faith without works. ·We believe enterprise without ministry is like works without faith; both approaches, alone, are dead. Tactics that separate ministry from enterprise reinforce the sacred - secular separation myth. · We are interested in concepts that find, encourage and equip believing entrepreneurs, removing barriers that prevent them from serving in their evangalical, God-given roles, in every country on ear...

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BWOB Survey

Which of the of the following activities would you choose, if you had to spend your life doing just this one:Entrepreneur, starting one small business after the nextEntrepreneur, starting and building a single companyProfessional business specialist, like accounting, finance, human resources, sales,marketing, legal, purchasing logistics, Information Technology, etc.Professional business generalist, manager or operations, Director or Vice PresidentProfessional Consultant, trainer, program developer helping internally or externallIn which area are you most interested or experienced? ( pick only one)Services ( banking, financial, insurance, consulting engineer, consulting, Inspecting,Transportation, logistics, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, assembly Utilities (Water, Gas, Electricity, etc)Construction...

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