Did you miss our livestream? Here’s the recording:
Links:
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Quotable Quotes:
- “We tried to live out disciple making movement principles, and we didn’t really think that ministry was different from how we live. We live our life as a ministry. And one of the things that we like to say is to make noise for Jesus, just in how we live, in giving thanks to him for what he’s done. And over time, people see how we lived, whether it was adoption or planting a church. People would ask questions and eventually people would have issues in their life and, you know, ask for prayer and they would know that we’d be available for that.”
- “And when we’re a Christian, we’re always Christians. And that means that we’re always lights in this world.”
- “It’s just living. It’s really day to day life, living out the principles of what it means to be a follower of Jesus.”
- “At the time, it just seemed like we were trying to support our families, you know, and use our giftedness for what God was asking of us. But now you know that we’re living in this country and we’re working within BAM. We see that absolutely. All of that was preparation for what we’re doing right now.”
- “He wants people to know that he loves them. And we get to do that in interactions through business or just throughout our normal every day, how we’re living our life. People are watching, you know, and people get to see God, you know, moving through us, throughout our day-to-day interactions.”
- “God loves the whole person and the whole community and he sees everything as a way for him to touch someone. And when we are at work and when we are in the marketplace, we are in contact with people who would never, never, ever come to a church.”
- “In fact, 70% of Jesus’s ministry, over 70% actually was in the marketplace. That doesn’t mean he was in a store, but it means that he was not in the tabernacle when he was ministering.”
- “So, we actually have three main arms to this. And the first one is we equip entrepreneurial missionaries or church planters. So, this isn’t just any missionary. I’m talking about nationals. While we do actually work with foreigners, too, it’s people in the country who cannot go to these hard-to-reach places. They cannot just show up and say, ‘Hi, I’m here to live here and hang out with you guys,’ because they will be rejected from the community and people will be very suspicious of them. And they also need a way to support their families because in a lot of overseas, especially developing countries, the national church does not financially support the missionaries or send them. So, they need to find a way to support their families. So, we train these entrepreneurial church planters or entrepreneurial missionaries how to start a kind of business to use as an access to the community, to provide community outreach and build relationships and to support their family.”