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IMT Introduction by Paul Stevens
30/09/2024
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Church Leaders’ Marketplace Pastoring Tool Kit
03/12/2023
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A tool to be used in corporate worship (Sunday or Saturday): Interviewing every week or each month a person...
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The Abolition of the Laity, Vol. 1: Toward a Theology of the Laity
23/11/2023
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I, too, am technically a layperson “as people call it”—meaning unordained. Admittedly, this is a controversial title. Here is why...
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Indomitable Hope: A Single-Eyed Approach to Life, Work and Calling After the Grave
13/10/2023
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Clutching this manuscript, I turned up at the church in a taxi just minutes before the service was to begin...
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Send us out to do the work you have given us to do
04/04/2023
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We are called to see the world through the eyes of the Incarnation, able to know more completely what is and what isn’t...
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Forming a Marketplace-Friendly Church
07/03/2023
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The equipping task has been misunderstood as enrolling people into the ministry of the church, making them assistant pastors, rather than...
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A Theological Understanding of Profit in Business
07/02/2023
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A business does not operate in a vacuum but is the recipient of shared cultural and intellectual wealth and is accountable to the community...
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Humility for the artist-leader
10/01/2023
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How can we cultivate our friendship with God? Is friendship simply a gift of God that we can receive and enjoy, or does it require...
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Helping individuals, churches, businesses, and theological colleges integrate faith and work
08/12/2022
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To all the friends of IMT we wish a blessed Christmas.IMT exists to help individuals, churches, businesses, and theological colleges...
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On Being a Biblical Servant Leader: Insights from the Global Church
06/12/2022
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My interest in marketplace theology began quite early, without, of course, even having the language to call it “marketplace theology,”...
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Growing our Friendship with God through the Spiritual Discipline of Relinquishment
08/11/2022
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How can we cultivate our friendship with God? Is friendship simply a gift of God that we can receive and enjoy, or does it require...
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ORA ET LABORA: The heart of our calling
18/10/2022
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And because vocation is written into the very meaning of being human, our vocations are therefore integral to who we are, to why we are...
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Business as a Calling and Profession: A Historical Review
28/09/2022
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In this article, Gordon examines the importance of some of the Greek philosophical and historical factors disparaging work and business, against which Protestant notions of ...
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Business as Calling and Profession: Towards a Protestant Entrepreneurial Ethic
06/09/2022
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In this article, Dr. Gordon aims to retrieve the Protestant doctrine of vocation and the related concept of profession...
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Blessing God Through Work and Worship
16/08/2022
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In this article, we are considering just how our work can be worship, as well as how our worship in the gathered life of the ...
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Toiling Under the Sun: Ecclesiastes and a Biblical Theology of Work
26/07/2022
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Work is a key theme in the book of Ecclesiastes. It provides a vital counterweight in a fully biblical theology of work, reminding us...
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The WORKER—Trinitarian Work
28/06/2022
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We have argued in previous articles that a wholistic marketplace theology must deal with the head, the heart, and the hands. But even...
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The Snake and the Dove: Life in the Marketplace
07/06/2022
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Living faithfully in the marketplace is a process of character building and continuous spiritual growth. It is important for Christians to...
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Towards a More Biblical View of Matter Towards a Theology of Work
10/05/2022
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It is not an accident that the Bible begins with a not-so-religious theme – a world of matter! It seems to be preoccupied, not with...
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Going to Work with the Professor: Ecclesiastes and Meaning in Human Labour
12/04/2022
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I am a professor but not like the one who forms the title of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, a person who had enormous ...
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I’m a Christian—But Who Am I at Work?
22/03/2022
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Back in my twenties, when I began working for state government, I struggled with how—as a Christ-follower—I should see myself in that role...
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WORK: A Wholistic Approach—Head, Heart and Hands
01/03/2022
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Work is energy expended, whether manual or mental, purposively—unlike play which simply has the enjoyment of the activity itself...
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Dualism and Work: The Greek Contribution
08/02/2022
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It is common for Christians to think about life being divided between the sacred and the secular. Prayer, Bible reading, witnessing and teaching at church ...
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Towards a Theology of Doing: The Science of Christian Reflection “from Below”
08/02/2022
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The vision we have for this series of articles on marketplace theology is this: every person ...
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The Intrinsic Value of Work: In Light of the Doctrines of Creation, Redemption and Eschatology
08/02/2022
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The aim of this paper is to provide the theological bases for the intrinsic value of work...
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Introduction to Marketplace Theology – Toward a Wholistic Science of Work, Worker and Workplace
08/02/2022
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My interest in marketplace theology began quite early, without, of course, even having the language to call it “marketplace theology,”...
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Eight Kingdom Virtues in the Marketplace
21/12/2020
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“The word of the Beatitudes… overturns our ideas and projects, reverses the obvious, thwarts our desires, and bewilders us, leaving us poor …
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Covid-19 and Work in the Kingdom of God
01/12/2020
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“A billion people will lose their jobs over the next 10 years due to AI, and if anything COVID has accelerated that by about nine ...
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