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.
FAILURE, A WAY FORWARD
I attended a meeting recently where a number of Christian leaders were sharing about the programs their organizations were promoting for their overseas workers. Some of these programs centered around improving the workers ability to share their faith, others on...
INNOVATION IN MISSIONS – A LEADERSHIP PROBLEM
In the post-modern world, change is normative. To stay on top of change we need to innovate. Four years ago David Wittenberg spoke at the Bangkok OPEN Huddle on the topic, challenging us to expand our limits and try what hasn’t been tried. This week I a read an...
MONEY & CHANGING LIVES
My son had graduated from university and moved to Chicago to being work with a bank. During our first visit to the Windy City we went out for dinner. He suggested an expensive outdoor restaurant in Grant’s Park, just a stone’s throw from his apartment. It was a...
TRANSPARENCY
A friend gave me the following. He does not know the original source, maybe you do. If so, let me know. I share it as it clearly reflects one of our core values. Enjoy. Consider, once upon a time, there were two kings who ruled successively over the nation of...
GOD’S WAY IS *THE* WAY
Now the word of the Lord came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead one who comes from your own body will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “Your...
B4T IS SUSTAINABLE
When we first started working with Muslims we had a traditional approach. We tried to meet people on the streets and in our neighborhood to share the Gospel. We’d ride buses, go to the gym, hang out in parks. When we could get people into a conversation we’d try to...
MODELING
David is a model worker. He has tried doing them all; the NGO model, CPM model, contextualization model, prayer model, BAM model, B4T model. David remarked to me recently, nothing seems to work – and he is right. God has chosen to use people to make His glory known...
HOW TO WIN AT B4T
I was asked by a zealous young business graduate, “How do I win at doing business for transformation?” I answered simply “You cannot win, until you first master the art of losing.” Jesus states; If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross...
THE MISSING JESUS
About a week before Christmas the family bought a new nativity scene. When they unpacked it they found 2 figures of the Baby Jesus. "Someone must have packed this wrong," the mother said, counting out the figures. "We have one Joseph, one Mary, three wise men, three...
3 EXAMPLES OF B4T
The following are stories sent to me from a few OPEN network member from different parts of the world. I’ll share these periodically, to encourage those who have doubts about the impact of B4T. I’ve edited them a bit for clarification, and to protect those connected...
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