Posts by Mike Baer
Freedom!
BAM has so many applications. It’s a way to get into (legally and ethically) closed countries. It’s a way to relieve poverty. It’s a way to spread the Kingdom. And, it’s a way to bring the victims of trafficking into liberty. Jesus read this Scripture in the synagogue: “The spirit of the Lord is upon…
Read MoreInternational Business Among UPGs
Unreached People Groups (UPGs) are those ethnolinguistic groups of people (Jesus called them “the nations” in Matthew 28) who share several traits. They share a common language. They share a common culture. They share a common geography. And, tragically, they share that they are not reached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, meaning there is…
Read MoreHolistic & Integrated BAM Will Make History
Mats Tunehag In the global Business as Mission, BAM, movement we talk about taking our Sunday talk into a Monday walk. Whatever we believe and profess in church on Sunday should be permeating our lives and business practices the rest of the week.1 But we must strive towards a seamless integration of Sunday and Monday,…
Read MoreGodly Business Matters Everywhere
As the “West” becomes increasingly post-Christian in its orientation and darker in its culture, light shines even brighter. Paul instructed the believers in Philippi to “Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and…
Read MoreSix Words Leaders Should Remember
By Rod St Hill1 Much is written about leadership. My local Christian bookstore lists over 4,000 titles on leaders and leadership in its catalog. Nearly three-quarters of them are classified as ‘academic’. I want to share just six words that have gradually come to define the way I ‘do’ leadership. In no particular order they…
Read MoreCan you do BAM at Home?
The needs which BAM meets are everywhere. Addressing poverty, releasing captives, providing jobs, creating relationships, and opening doors for the Gospel are in style in every country. As the West, in particular, goes more and more post-modern, post-Christian, and pro-pagan, BAM is sorely needed. Take for example the “inner city.” Poverty is rife and has…
Read MoreFinding the “New Normal”
I have to admit, I hate the term “new normal.” The reason I hate it is that it seems to be saying, “How do we get back to the way things were?” That will never happen. We are not ruined but we are forever changed by COVID-19; that inescapable truth. Entrepreneurs don’t look for “normal.”…
Read MoreGlobal Approaches to Business as Mission
Many debate the “true meaning of BAM” and, frankly, advance the cause, not one inch. There’s room in the big tent for a lot of different approaches; the common ground is that we know business is a high and holy calling from God and a tremendous way to bring Him glory in this world. The…
Read MoreCan Missionaries Do Business? Part V
Yes! Yes! Yes! Business is all about risk-taking—not foolish, jumping out of an airplane sans parachute risk but thoughtful, facing potential problems, and acting anyway risk. Many of the missionaries that I’ve met at home and around the world have taken huge risks to leave hearth and home, to move their families to underdeveloped countries…
Read MoreCan Missionaries Do Business? Part IV
Again, yes! Don’t confuse doing business with being an entrepreneur like Elon Musk. They are not the same thing. Less than 15% of people have the “entrepreneurial gene” yet 90% are in business of some kind. Business is simply the discovery of need(s) in your community that people are willing to pay to have met.…
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