Episode Overview
This episode of the Lausanne Global Classroom examines the gospel issue of business as mission.
In the global marketplace today, we have a huge opportunity to leverage the God- given power of business to address some of the world’s most pressing spiritual, social, environmental, and economic issues.
This is ‘business as mission’—a movement of business professionals using the gifts of entrepreneurship and good management to bring creative and long-term, sustainable solutions to challenges such as the evils of human trafficking, the task of reaching the remaining unreached peoples with the gospel, and the problems of social injustice, environmental degradation, and dire poverty, to name a few. Business as mission is: Profitable and sustainable businesses, intentional about kingdom of God purpose and impact on people and nations, focused on holistic transformation and the multiple bottom lines of economic, social, environmental, and spiritual outcomes, and concerned about the world’s poorest and least evangelized peoples.
Episode Outline
- 1. 01 - Introduction to BAM
- 2. 02 - BAM the Concept: Definition
- 3. 03 - BAM the Concept Biblical Foundations
- 4. 04 - BAM the Concept II: Missiological and Strategic Perspectives
- 5. 05 - BAM in Practice: Historical and Contemporary Examples
- 6. 06 - BAM the Movement, Part I: Its Four Major Constituencies Business Missions Academia Church
- 7. 07 - BAM the Movement, Part II: Building through Networks
- 8. 08 - Challenges and Struggles in BAM
- 9. 09 - BAM and Creation Care
- 10. 10 - Looking Forward: Three Major BHAG’s Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals
- 11. 11 - Preparing the Next Generation for BAM
- 12. 12 Conclusion
Resources
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