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.
ARE YOUR LIFE AND WORK IN BALANCE?
When you entered the B4T arena you had a vision of what your life and work would look like. So how’s it going? Is the business working for you? Are you working for the business? Are you in control? Or is the business running or should I say, ruining your life? Here...
ANOTHER B4T SNAPSHOT
I received the following copy of a letter that another B4Ter sent to some of his friends. I share it with some minor edits and his permission. Several weeks ago, our mentors came to visit. We had a wonderful visit and our mentors spent some time with our whole “team”....
SNAPSHOT OF B4T
I had breakfast with a couple this morning, who after 4 years are shutting down their business. The business was struggling, but they said their greatest problem was that their organizational leaders and team members kept telling them they were wasting their time...
HONEST REFLECTIONS OF A B4T WORKER
The following was written in response to my blogs on accountability. Patrick, I have a question/thought about your latest email series on accountability. I have honestly been having a hard time thinking through these emails on accountability, and I think it dawned on...
HELPING THE BLIND SEE
The following is titled “The Malsi.” It was originally written by Richard Jameson. Once long ago in the kingdom of the Great King, there lived a people in the neighboring land of Malsi, all of whom were born blind. Over the centuries the people of Malsi adapted to...
ON TRANSPARENCY
The past 3 months we’ve been talking about the priority of relationships and accountability in developing better models of doing mission. The next few weeks I wish to focus on transparency. In a timely fashion, one of the guys we mentor wrote the following on this own...
ACCOUNTABILITY 401
When I was 14 my father bought me a 12-gauge shotgun for Christmas. A few days later we were up north at our cottage. My dad taught me to load and clean the gun and then said to me, "Let’s go for a walk." After walking maybe a quarter mile down our rough dirt road, my...
THOUGHTS FROM A FIELD COACH
Photo credit: bycurated.com The following is written by one of the coaches we work with to friends in North America. (Names have been changed.) One of the main reasons I moved to N. Africa was to work with a B4T business, Wonderful Widgets, and her sister company GO2....
ACCOUNTABILITY 301
In Matthew 4:19 Jesus says, "Follow me." Where was He going? Did He have any idea? Obviously, He did. From Luke 10 we can see that He gave the disciples specific plans before He sent them out. In 2 Timothy 2:2 Paul says, "And the things you have heard me say in the...
ACCOUNTABILITY 201
There are two keys to accountability; mentors and goals. This week we’ll focus on mentoring. Most tentmakers fail for one of three reasons: loss of focus, loss of balance, or they burn themselves out. All three of these problems are readily solved by having a mentor...
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