Resources

Here are some resources you may find helpful. If you have any suggestions, please choose the ‘contact us’ page and send it along.

LINKS:

http://www.regententrepreneur.com/index.html - I particularly like the MP3 files of the difference between Business As Mission & Kingdom Business. Great resource.

http://www.tbnetworkportal.org/ - This Portal allows Transformational Business Network (TBN) members, partners and associates to share notes, ideas and information about the business projects that they are working on. It is also an area for holding information and resources about using business to help the world’s poor.

http://www.tradeasone.com/ - motto: “change lives with what you buy”. Trade as One’s core concern is using sustainable business to address the issue of global poverty. It would be great if we could all find one way to build a relationship, start a micro-enterprise, and pay it down the line to the under-developed world.

www.europartners.org - a network of Christian business people who want to live out their faith in the work place.

http://www.kingdomventures.org/ - information on Christian venture capital

http://www.kingdomventures.com/index.php 

http://www.businessasmissionnetwork.com/ 

http://www.principlesforbusiness.com/index.php 

BOOKS/ARTICLES:

On Kingdom Business: Transforming Missions Through Entrepreneurial Strategies  - excellent book that provides examples of entrepreneurial endeavours, critical & biblical analysis of these, and supports the idea of kingdom businesses and business people. The bestbook i’ve found so far on the subject. 

The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work  - a brilliant book to help everyone understand the eternal, instrumental, and spiritual nature of our work; whatever that may be. A foundational read that if you struggle here then the idea of a missional enterprise or tentmaking is bound to get you all twisted up inside.

The Other Six Days - by R. Paul Stevens ~ a book that recovers the notion of the whole people of God including the clergy or the worker. He shoots down the clergy-laity division in a graceful and biblical manner.

Doing God’s Business - another keeper. More practical as it has questions to think through at the end of each chapter and this helps you flesh out the concepts.

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church - A brilliant book that anyone interested in missional movements needs to read before they read Hirsch’s next book:

The Forgotten Ways - Another bedside book. If you are a leader in a community that is moving from attractional to missional or starting something new, this book is practical and a great encouragement.

Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture - Michael Frost’s book presents the motif of Christian’s living as exiles in a foreign culture. He then presents ideas/ways for us to act not as strangers but as those that bring something beautiful to the land.

Here is a paper by Miroslav Wolf titled God At Work. Miroslav serves as Director of Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School.