What is a good work?
This seems to an innocuous question—one that everyone can answer, correct?
Let’s not jump to conclusions too quickly. A definition is in order.
Let’s start with the definition of good. The pedestrian view is . . .
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Shalom, Thanks for the add. Purrraying that our loving Lord and Savior will bless you in a uniquely special way, especially because today is Friday which is Huggle Snuggle Day, every time you bless others every day. Mt. 10:42; 1 Pet. 2:9; Ps. 23:1-6; 119:105; 37:23-24; Nu. 6:24-26; 1 Cor. 15:58.
About thirty years ago, Billy Graham said: "I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace." Many pundits agreed. There were numerous models proposed for this new or reinvigorated initiative that became known as Business as Mission (BAM). Some focused on evangelism within the organization, others on evangelism to those outside the organization (venders and suppliers), and others on evangelism to customers. There are also combinations of these models. So, what was the best model? Perhaps church history might help us.
During the first three hundred years of Christian history . . .
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Every individual and organizational leader has the same challenge: how to produce value. Time, talent, treasure, and technology (T4) must be combined with wisdom and strategy to produce a product or service valued by others. Another way to express this is the following: the right people serving the right people by doing the right things the right way at the right time in the right place for the right reason. However you prefer to view it, individuals and organizations must have a worldview that guides them into successfully producing value. This means that success is rooted in a correct or sound worldview.
To be clear, a worldview is a way of . . .
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A Christian Merchant Banking Model
In the eleventh century AD, merchant banking emerged out of the need to finance the delivery of goods over long distances. These distances took weeks or months to traverse. The associated risks were a great burden for producers. Furthermore, currency was coinage, which was heavy. To manage these problems, transportation companies emerged to manage shipping and finance companies emerged to manage payments.
The finance companies issued lightweight paper notes that were easily transported and could be exchanged for coinage or precious metals by any local participant in the financial network. This was the genesis of merchant banking.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, wealthy . . .
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