TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bessenecker,Scott
TI  - Overturning tables: freeing missions from the Christian-industrial complex 
SN  - 9780830896769
AV  - BV2063 .B455 2014eb
U1  - 266 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Downers Grove, Illinois
PB  - IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - Missions
KW  - Theory
KW  - Economics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Églises protestantes
KW  - Missiologie
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; A tale of two missions -- From corporation to locally owned -- From profits to prophets -- From convert to cosmos -- From solitary to solidarity -- From mainstream to margin -- From independent to interdependent -- From growth to flourishing
N2  - 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Cross-Cultural)2014 Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds BookstoreWe are more than the businesses we have become. Much of Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt metrics of success that have nothing to do with the state of people's souls or the seeding of the earth with the kingdom of God. We have borrowed our paradigms uncritically from the for-profit corporate sector. The mission of the Church
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