Marketplace vs Ministry
I am trying to get my head around an idea ... and hoping that writing will help. Feel free to ignore this post... :-) One of the missionaries on our team is interested in starting a small factory to make metal products and sell them in the marketplace. He is a bold evangelist, deeply & internally motivated to make a difference for the Kingdom ... and yet he wants to devote roughly half his "work week" to closing himself into a basement workshop and making inanimate widgets. (Bias noted -- that's why I'm writing the entry! If I didn't have the bias I would just go with it...) So we've asked somebody from outside to come in, a business consultant. This guy has lots of experience and study and wisdom from using the marketplace to make a difference for the kingdom. He's telling me that there is great benefit to being involved in the marketplace, even when it's not needed from a political standpoint, because the depth of relationship that can be r...