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Three Dimensions of Authenticity
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Weekly Newsletter: There are Missionaries in our Business Schools
I recently spoke to a class of senior marketing students at Indiana Wesleyan University. The professor is a new friend and a member of one of The Stone Table's church partners. He asked me to share about Business as Mission (BAM) as a way to open these students' minds...
The B4T Canvas: Sales & Marketing
Now that you have an idea that solves a problem and an initial transformation plan for your B4T, the next step is to determine how you will connect with your customers. We are going to draw on two foundational principles for sales and marketing that will determine the rest of your strategy in this section: Target Market, and Sales Channels.
Three Questions to Engage the Great Commission
We can indeed engage the Great Commission wherever we go – even in the marketplace. What does that look like for you?
Weekly Newsletter: God Will Most Definitely Give You More Than You Can Handle
There's a self-soothing saying I've heard for most of my life: "God will never give you more than you can handle." It's a bit of psychological gamesmanship, a way of shoring up our courage when we are facing a difficult season – I can do this! If God allowed it, I...
Are You Wrestling With The Call To Missions?
Today we saw how many of the marketplace skills that we have as believers can fit into God’s story and work in the world
Weekly Newsletter: Prayer is the Work
Perhaps your office wall is already wallpapered with certificates, diplomas, and other marketplace achievements. Regardless of how many skills you've mastered in your career, here's one I'm going to challenge you to brush up on: Prayer. In fact, I believe that prayer...
The B4T Canvas: Problem & Solution
The B4T Canvas is a template for mapping Business as Missions (BAM) structures that are focused on reaching Unreached People Groups (UPGs).
Business is Not the Enemy!
When we begin to reimagine the marketplace, business, and entrepreneurship through the lens of the Gospel, we will see the opportunity to proclaim the name of Jesus through business.
Weekly Newsletter: How to Celebrate Easter in the Hospital
As I began to think about Holy Week, I remembered these words I wrote nine years ago from a hospital bed on Easter morning. I hope it encourages you. Momentary affliction is our current reality, but resurrection is our eternal promise. And resurrection dawns in the...
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Common Ground | The One Thing We All Have In Common
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My Hot Take Usually Aren’t God’s Takes
Here at the Stone Table, we’re passionate about global missions. Sometimes, that passion can get us a little ahead of ourselves—just like Marketplace skills are also missionary skills. A few years ago, I learned this the hard way. A headline hit the news about a man...