Business as mission (EMS 14)

Table of Contents

• Author Profiles
• Introduction by Tom Steffen
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I. OVERVIEW OF BAM 

• 1. Distinctives and Challenges of Business as mission by Neal Johnson and Steve Rundle
• 2. Missional Geometry: Plotting the Coordinates of Business as mission by Dwight Baker
• 3. God’s Kingdom Purpose for Business: Business as Integral Mission by Norm Ewert
• 4. Tentmaking Uncovered by Patrick Lai
• 5. Economic Development and Holistic Mission by David Befus

II. MISSIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

• 6. The Biblical Basis for the Integration of Business and Missions by Mark Russell
• 7. Nestorian Merchant Missionaries and Today’s unreached people groups, UPGs by Howard Owens
• 8. North India’s Need? A New Expatriate Breed by D.D. Pani
• 9. Seventeenth Century Puritan Missions: Some Implications for Business as mission by Steven Pointer and Michael Cooper
• 10. The Integrative Role of Business in Islamic Daw’ah by William Wagner

III. CASE STUDIES

• 11. A Case Study of African Self-sustaining Churches by Tom Stallter
• 12. Tying the Knots: From Macramé to Multi-missions by Meg Crossman
• 13. Unleashing the Brazilian Evangelical Missionary Force by Joao Mordomo
• 14. Professional Work as Ministry: A Chinese Case Study by Mans Ramstad

IV. FUTURE CHALLENGES

• 15. The Future of Business as mission: An Inquiry into Macro-Strategy by Jay Gary
• 16. Where Both Business and Mission Fall Short by Ralph Winter
• 17. Suits or Sandals: Making Business as mission Work by Sue Russell, Carla Hausman, Sarah Vinateri
• 18. Microenterprise Projects and Business Training by Joseph Kilpatrick
• Conclusion by Mike Barnett