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Highlights
- Is there any eternal value to your day job?Is it possible to find gospel meaning in your "secular" career?If you really love Jesus, shouldn't you quit your job and go into full-time ministry?How does your everyday work have anything to do with God's mission in the world?Many marketplace Christians have wrestled with these questions in their lives and in their work.
- Author(s): Erik Cooper
- 252 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Faith
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About the Book
Through the lenses of The Great Story, The Great Commandment, and The Great Commission, Missional Marketplace will create a gospel-collision between your faith, your work, and the global mission of God in this world.
Book Synopsis
Is there any eternal value to your day job?
Is it possible to find gospel meaning in your "secular" career?
If you really love Jesus, shouldn't you quit your job and go into full-time ministry?
How does your everyday work have anything to do with God's mission in the world?
Many marketplace Christians have wrestled with these questions in their lives and in their work. But from entrepreneurs to assembly line workers, from high-paid execs to minimum-wage hospitality staff, more Christians are becoming overwhelmingly filled with renewed purpose as they realize that their work has a role in God's kingdom plan.
In Missional Marketplace, author Erik Cooper offers his perspective through personal stories and reflections on the sacredness of all work, framing the faith and work discussion through the lenses of The Great Story, The Great Commandment, and The Great Commission. This book will create a gospel-collision between your faith, your work, and the global mission of God in this world.
Review Quotes
In Missional Marketplace, Erik Cooper speaks with rare clarity and understanding of the marketplace as a place of mission. As a master storyteller, he takes the reader into the streets of the town square and shows how a daily trip to work is a journey along the road of God's purpose. The insights of these pages have the power and potential to reshape how you view work and see God's fingerprints at each turn of the road that has led you to your marketplace calling. Get ready to see new life in your story!
MICHAEL MESSNER CEO, Assemblies of God Business as Mission
What I love about Erik Cooper is that he makes much of Jesus and is little in his own eyes. What I love about his book is that it makes much of Jesus and has large implications for God's work in God's world. The greatest way to fulfill the Great Commandment is in full-hearted pursuit of the Great Commission. Erik's wit and wisdom leads us into the Great Story and reveals that our work is of eternal value, whatever it is and wherever it is done, when it spreads God's global glory among all nations.
DICK BROGDEN Co-Founder of the Live Dead Movement
Erik Cooper addresses the perceived dichotomy between secular and sacred calling. It is a courageous endeavor. There is no doubt that each believer is called to Kingdom work in the harvest fields of the world. The key is discerning God's specific call and yielding to His placement.
DR. GREG MUNDIS Executive Director, Assemblies of God World Missions
For over twenty-five years I have served in the intersection of work, business, and ministry. I have interviewed hundreds of Christian entrepreneurs, read dozens of books on the topic, and attended numerous workshops and seminars that focused on helping people understand how to live out their calling and mission through their work. Based on my firsthand experience, I can say that there are very few individuals who are better suited and equipped to write on this topic than Erik Cooper, a true subject matter expert who has dedicated his life to this very important cause. If you are serious about understanding what God and His Word have to say about serving Jesus through work and business,