This is a story of a Business as Mission (BAM) practitioner on the field using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world you can’t go with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done there, we will not share the...
On a recent day-tour of Paris proper, I learned the story of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the young French architect who redesigned and rebuilt the famous spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral (yes, the stunning spire recently destroyed by a horrific fire). Following...
What I think I like best about engaging in missional business is an idea I call dynamic development. Dynamic development is a mindset that allows all the differing members of a business relationship; employer or employee, customer or stakeholder, to be challenged and...
This is a multi-part series from our friend Brian Hudson of The Clapham Circle. Over the next few weeks, Brian shares how our view of Creation impacts how we see everything in life, including our daily work. You can learn more about Brian and Clapham...
I just returned from a week in Southeast Asia. It was my first time to this part of the world, and our whirlwind tour with a prolific, Christ-centered ministry that is rescuing young girls from the vile evils of sex-trafficking left my head spinning and my emotions...
Business as Mission is the perfect mechanism for both embodying and proclaiming the Gospel all over the world, but we are seeing unique impact with this strategy among unreached people groups. At its core, business is about adding value to people’s lives, meeting a...
I was laying in bed late Saturday night flipping back and forth between the Indianapolis Colts’ third preseason football game and other mindless drivel when my phone rang. It was my son calling. From the basement. “Dad please tell me it’s not true about Andrew Luck,”...
Faith and Work. Business as Mission. The Gospel and the Marketplace. These are all phrases we throw around regularly in our discussion of how the Kingdom of God collides with our day jobs. It’s a big topic theologians and missiologists have wrestled with for...
This week we asked Stone Table board member, Pastor Rob Ketterling, about the heart of global missions. Rob is the founding pastor of River Valley Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the top missions giving church in the Assemblies of God fellowship. When we hear the...
A few years ago, I read The Poisonwood Bible, a fictional story about a missionary family who left Georgia for the African bush in the late 1950s. The patriarch was the stereotype of a typical southern Evangelical obsessed with converting the tribal heathens to Jesus...
Many of us often question what our calling is in life. We walk a tightrope worrying that we may fall and be off course of what God has destined for us. In this video, Erik Cooper of The Stone Table shares some fascinating points on God’s calling for our life.
“Paid in full, it is finished”. Work from the place of “it is finished”. Jesus has done the heavy lifting, Jesus’s finished work is the starting place for all of your work.
Work-life balance can look different to people of different generations. In the past The Stone Table has released videos talking about work-life balance from an older generation perspective, but how do the younger generations view work-life balance?