5 Ways to Activate Businesspeople & Professionals into Mission (and Gain Ministry Partners Along the Way!)

5 Ways to Activate Businesspeople & Professionals into Mission

Wayne Park

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• The laity are the church's greatest untapped resource. But oftentimes they are relegated to second-class ministers, people who support the work of “real” ministry on the front-lines, i.e., ordained clergy. This workshop aims to flip that assumption completely around, stating that the real front-lines of ministry are where people spend the highest percentage of their lives: at work – and it is the work of ordained clergy to support the laity in these (work)places of ministry.

  1. THIS BURGEONING FAITH & WORK MOVEMENT (the history)

  1. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic (ca 1905)

  2. David W. Miller, God At Work: The History And Promise Of The Faith At Work Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007).

  3. Rerum novarum, or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891.

  2 A THEOLOGICAL CASE FOR ITS NECESSITY (the theology)

  1. Zenos E. Hawkinson, Anatomy of the Pilgrim Experience: Reflections On Being A Covenanter, ed. Philip J. Anderson and David E. Hawkinson (Covenant Pub, 2000).

  3. FIVE PRACTICAL WAYS TO ACTIVATE PROFESSIONALS AND GAIN PARTNERS (the praxis)

  1. Redefine “missional”

  2. Consecrate the Carpenter

  3. Visit them at work

  4. Start a Fellows Program

  5. Learn to do Public Theology