B4T Blog
Greg M, Patrick Lai, and guest bloggers write about the joys, challenges, and rewards that come with taking the Gospel to the least reached through real business.
THE IDEAL PAINTING
This blog is contributed by an OPEN worker, serving in the Arab world. There is a painting that is the result of a marketing survey, which asked people “What would be included in an ideal painting?”The most popular answers were; George Washington, deer, mountains,...
JUSTICE
The following is contributed by a tentmaker, working in the Middle East. I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings...
WHY ISN’T JESUS’ ASSIGNMENT DONE?
The following is submitted by Brad Buser of Radius. The church of Jesus Christ has been sending thousands of workers and putting hundreds of millions of dollars each year towards "missions." During the last 30 years alone with the amount of workers that have landed in...
THOUGHTS ON WORK
Plans succeed through good counsel; don't go to war without the advice of others. Proverbs 20:18 In reading some quotes today, I realized others may enjoy reading what others say about work as much as I do. Here are some of my favorite quotes about work. “Do. Or do...
TRAINING – Part 2
To read Part 1 on Training vs Development go here. Contemporary theological teaching is mostly a data-transfer education. Information is transferred from laptop to laptop. As a result, our theology rarely gets below our necks. Students are expected to meticulously...
WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?
The following is written and contributed by a B4T worker in the Arab world.What do you mean when you say, "I am sharing the Gospel?" Most Christians, would respond with several things, which one must believe and do. Common examples of this understanding can be found...
ANOTHER LESSON ON PLOWING
I love hanging around farmers. They are so practical, so down to earth. Art is a pastor who grew up on a farm. He shared something about plowing that impacted me. He said one of the most important lessons he learned from his father was to stay focused on where you are...
ARE YOU HAVING FUN YET?
We should be striving for an integration of work and life—not a balance of work and life. Balance is something man seeks, but God calls us to a holistic lifestyle where work and worship, fun and family, God and life are totally integrated. We are not to section off...
KEEP ON KEEPING ON!
Do you recognize any of these familiar thoughts in your thinking? Thinking a particular "method" will reach people? Being impatient to see breakthroughs in people's lives? Neglectful, lazy in really hearing from God in Scripture? Discouraged about whether God is at...
BUSYNESS
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in the Arab world who has a family and works 10-hour days for a multi-national company. If you have a blog you’d like posted here, do send it to us. Most people today feel overwhelmed with busyness. It is really a fact of...
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