Integration and Kingdom Business
Faith & Work
Efforts to educate and promote the concepts of faith-work integration (business as ministry) and kingdom business (business as mission).
Faith-Work Integration
How do we resolve the tension between work and spiritual life? Many of us separate our work and faith into compartments, but that disintegration leaves us unfulfilled. As Ken Eldred describes in his book The Integrated Life, compartmentalization results from erroneous messages from both business and church. In reality, our spiritual lives and work lives share a common goal and can be deeply integrated. We need to adopt a new paradigm of work that views it as a calling and sacred ministry.
Kingdom Business
Kingdom business is for-profit ventures pursued with a goal of achieving spiritual, economic, and social transformation in underdeveloped nations. Sometimes called business as mission, it is a simultaneous pursuit of several factors, including successful business, work-faith integration, economic development, job creation, and promotion of the local church. A more thorough description of kingdom business principles and practices may be found in Ken Eldred's book God Is at Work, named the top book in the field by the Business as Mission Network.
Business as mission pursues profit for the sake of growth and sustainability: it is only by pursuing and promoting real for-profit business ventures that BAM can facilitate the holistic transformation of individuals, organizations and nations, which is part of the Great Commission mandate. In this case, business becomes a mission tool for ministering to those with real needs -- through local job and wealth creation, education and basic healthcare, and church growth.
Spirit of God Moving in Communities
Transformation
Kingdom-centric initiatives that seek to achieve regional or community transformation through the unity of the body of Christ, united prayer, repentance, reconciliation, church growth, and evangelism.
Promoting Christian Values
Family Values
Agencies or programs that are making a significant impact advancing the pro-life cause as well as promoting Christian values. Ministries that provide for the spiritual and physical needs of women, especially single mothers.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Fulfilling the Great Commission
Discipleship
Initiatives responding to Jesus' command to "go and make disciples." We are committed to the goal of multiplying disciples. We recognize the power of a movement of ordinary people who are disciple-makers--in family, community, workplace, or the world.
Every disciple has the capability and the responsibility to minister to others in God's name. We are all ambassadors, lights in the world, ministers of reconciliation. Understood this way, it's clear that it is the role of every believer to grow up to be a minister and to make disciples, and it is the role of every minister, pastor, and elder to train, equip, and coach every disciple to become a minister who makes disciples.