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VIDEO: A Message From China

VIDEO: A Message From China

by | Sep 7, 2018

A Message From China: How we're leveraging business to reach the unreached and how you can help. This week's video comes from a slightly different location than normal. Erik shares with us how The Stone Table is leveraging business to reach the unreached and how you...

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VIDEO: How do we find happiness in our work?

VIDEO: How do we find happiness in our work?

by | Aug 10, 2018

How do we find happiness in our work? This week we spoke with Erik Cooper, the President of The Stone Table, about finding happiness in our work. It's safe to say that we all want to be happy, but should the pursuit of happiness be our focus? You see, happiness is not...

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OUR MISSION
The Stone Table Exists to Mobilize Marketplace Believers for The Great Commission.

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VIDEO: Gospel is Not

by | Apr 4, 2022

Let me tell you what the Gospel is not. The Gospel is not, “I am a Sinner; I work hard to improve myself and God approves me because of my effort.” That is not the Gospel. This is the Gospel: “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

VIDEO: Gospel Passion

by | Mar 30, 2022

You know when I was a pastor, my passion was the Gospel; the proclamation of Jesus Christ and the discipleship of people through the local church. That was my job. So, my job was pastor, my passion was the Gospel. But now for the last decade or so, I have been back in the marketplace. And you know what? My passion is still the Gospel. I sit at a different seat now. I’m in a marketplace seat. I’m involved in managing apartments and developing apartments and Realestate but my passion as a believer is still the same. My job is different but my vocation (my vocation or “vocare” from the Latin word “calling”) is still the same; the Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ. I just do that now from a marketplace seat. So, I want to encourage all of you, whether you work in a church, whether you work in a marketplace, whether you’re on the mission field, the vocation and calling of every believer ultimately is the same. It is to embody the kingdom and to proclaim and glorify the name of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. That’s your job, that’s your vocation.

VIDEO: Erik Cooper at the Truth at Work Conference

by | Mar 20, 2022

And at The Stone Table, we define BAM this way: Business as mission is the intentional integration of business and ministry to create a sustainable, missional presence of the kingdom of God in a particular community. Across the globe, all kinds of marketplace work is being embraced as a Great Commission opportunity to take the Gospel to every ethnos. We have missionary entrepreneurs that are starting sustainable farms, tourism companies, CrossFit gyms, and coffee shops in areas devoid of Gospel witness. We have gig economy workers like graphic designers and book editors that are moving their base of operations to strategic missions’ outposts. We have take-a-job missionaries that are partnering with local church planting teams and are embedding in local corporations that are moving them to unreached parts of the world. We have business owners that are franchising their models to missionary teams that could take the Gospel into places that traditional missionaries cannot go. And missionary investors are underwriting the risky startup costs of these strategic BAM projects through grant and investment dollars. And they’re embracing this multiple bottom-line definition of success and Great Commission returns.