Articles
Church Leaders’ Marketplace Pastoring Tool Kit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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”
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
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
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
“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
“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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