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At the Bleeding Edge of Marketplace Ministry
At the Bleeding Edge of Marketplace Ministry
Jan 19, 2025 3:51 PM

In the November issue of Christianity Today, Dr. Amy Sherman, senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute has published an article entitled “The Cutting Edge of Marketplace Ministries.” In this article Sherman describes “holistic ministry” being done by a variety of businesses.

Businesses are able to plish this kind of ministry in part when “pastors and faithful Christians grasp their role in God’s economy of all things,” as Stephen Grabill, director of programs and international at Acton Institute describes the work of the Oikonomia Network. This network, which includes more than two dozen evangelical institutions, endeavors to make connections between faith, work, and economics and show how critical these realities are to Christian discipleship. The network plishes this in the context of a munity, which informs pastors how believers do their work and thus how Christians are able to participate productively in the economy.

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