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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.
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...
ACCOUNTABILITY 101
Every man is as lazy as he dares to be. -Emerson Emerson had it right. People do not do what is expected; we do what is inspected. Phil Parshall, after forty years of serving among Muslims, said to me, “I have my doubts about tentmaking ... most tentmakers I know...
ACCOUNTABILTY – A GAME CHANGER
John Piper writes: For much of my Christian life I have had a one-sided view of “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15). I assumed that the verse meant only that when hard news or rebuke needed to be brought, it should be done with tenderness and sensitivity. I...
REALITY CHECK
I was leading a board meeting of an organization I was a part of. We had a guest from another very large mission agency attending our meetings. This man was the #2, right hand man of the international director of that agency. He oversaw hundreds of workers on two...
ACCOUNTABILITY YIELDS JOY
We are investing several months reviewing the 4 core values of B4T – relationships, accountability, transparency and perfection. This month we continue the focus on the need for real accountability. Joy! A B4T worker recently asked me to hold him accountable for the...
LEADERSHIP & ACCOUNTABILITY
Oswald Sanders writes, The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me. If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a...
THE GOAL OF B4T
Is drinking alcohol good? Is drinking alcohol bad? Drinking wine is one of life’s pleasures which even Jesus enjoyed, but if we drink alcohol all the time we become a drunkard. So if we wake up thinking about drinking and drinking then becomes a driving force in our...
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