We are not only inviting God to be a part of our stories, He is actually inviting us to be a part of His. The overarching goal of this episode was to give us a new perspective that allows us to see our story as embedded in God’s greater story.
Amy took the practical tools we learned from Erik & Darren today and applied them to her local community. She saw value in people, saw a need in her community, and set about pairing those things up to create something fresh for the people around her. She has embodied what it looks like to accelerate the Great Commission through the marketplace – exactly what the Stone Table stands for.
Season 1 of the Missional Marketplace podcast is available on all your favorite listening platforms. We hope it encourages you to remember that the work of your hands holds eternal value to God.
I have a friend who consults with business as mission projects across the globe. Earlier this year, he was overseas with a missionary friend who is running a coffee shop. He inherited the shop when the founder, a fellow global worker, was reassigned to a new region,...
Live faithfully where you are, and trust the leading of the Lord. He is faithful to lead us. When we live with the sincere desire to be obedient, and we have the wisdom of healthy community around us, we can move forward with confidence, knowing His plans for us are sure.
Being a neighbor means we engage in mutual friendship with those we encounter in everyday life. It means seeing people, not as evangelistic opportunities, but as people who contribute to good in our own lives. It means being fully present in the place God has set us and among the people, He has surrounded us with.
Few people have impacted our missiology like my friend Dick Brogden. In an interview for The Stone Table website, I asked Dick why business has become such a vital mechanism for missions work. Here was his answer: "Business goes beyond pragmatism. The pragmatic view...
A few years ago, I was visiting a team of missionary friends on a small island dominated by Islam. After years of laboring in this dry soil, the team was finally starting to see Gospel fruit. In fact, while I was there, I had the joy of witnessing the baptism of the...
Missiologists estimate there are between 6,000 and 7,000 people groups in the world that are unreached with the gospel. In this case, “unreached” is defined as a population that is less than 2% Christian. It means there are not enough believers within the people group...
By living, serving, and working in community with locals in their area, a tentmaker is able to take part in growing their local community, and in so doing they are able to love, serve, and support those around them.
We just got back from a whirlwind three days in Peru, up in the Andes Mountains, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet above sea level. I've almost recovered the oxygen I lost during that trip. While we were there, we got to talk to my new friend, missionary Bob Holloway,...
I'll go back to Philippians 4:6-7: "Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace." So that means, basically, the more time you spend with God, the more peace...
Our value was set by a Savior who declared, "While you're yet a sinner, I will come and die for you." You're valuable because I made you, I love you, and I came for you. This Value-First identity changes the entire nature of our work. It transforms it from earning to...