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.
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...
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Proverbs teaches, Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many counselors bring success. -Proverbs 15:22 For those who enjoy quotes, here’s some counsel from 20 other successful people concerning success. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through...
MENTORS ARE A MUST!
Imagine a coach trying to develop a world class soccer (football) team. Where would he invest most of his time—in the classroom or on the playing field? Would he have his team studying books about the soccer techniques of Pele? No! He would have them out on the...
DEVELOPMENT OR TRAINING?
Training. With Jesus as our model, we walk away from a structured approach to training. Jesus dealt with people, including His disciples, as individuals. He had no cookie cutter approach to discipleship. There were no programs. No one was sent off to Bible school to...
REFUGEE STATUS
The following is from a letter a dear friend, who serves in the Middle East, wrote us. I’ve edit parts for obvious reasons. I sat on the floor of a tent watching Syrian Christian refugees reach out to Syrian Muslim refugees. The Christians were sharing food they had...
NO MAGIC FORMULA
I was talking to an experienced field worker (not a B4Ter) recently. During our conversation, he mentioned a couple of times his “targets” in reference to the people he was ministering. And as we talked, it became clear to me that he had a formula to win people to...
B4T & BALANCE (PART II)
This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Find part 1 here. When you are first starting your job overseas or your business, you may need to abandon any idea of balance. That’s a serious statement that warrants strong consideration before moving into the B4T world. You will...
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