EPISODE · Jan 8, 2026
5 Ways to Activate Businesspeople & Professionals into Mission (and Gain Ministry Partners Along the Way!)
from The Oikonomiks podcast · host Wayne Park
1. THIS BURGEONING FAITH & WORK MOVEMENT (the history)- Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic (ca 1905)- David W. Miller, God At Work: The History And Promise Of The Faith At Work Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007).- Rerum novarum, or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891.2 A THEOLOGICAL CASE FOR ITS NECESSITY (the theology)- Zenos E. Hawkinson, Anatomy of the Pilgrim Experience: Reflections On Being A Covenanter, ed. Philip J. Anderson and David E. Hawkinson (Covenant Pub, 2000).3. FIVE PRACTICAL WAYS TO ACTIVATE PROFESSIONALS AND GAIN PARTNERS (the praxis)1. Redefine “missional”2. Consecrate the Carpenter3. Visit them at work4. Start a Fellows Program5. Learn to do Public Theology
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The laity are the church's greatest untapped resource. But oftentimes they are relegated to second-class ministers, people who support the work of “real” ministry on the front-lines, i.e., ordained clergy. This workshop aims to flip that assumption completely around, stating that the real front-lines of ministry are where people spend the highest percentage of their lives: at work – and it is the work of ordained clergy to support the laity in these (work)places of ministry. Learn from Dr. Wayne Park, Professor of Congregational & Marketplace Leadership and Chancellor of Fuller Theological Seminary, Texas, 5 key ways to enliven the faith of your parishioners at work, and how clergy might come alongside them in a new way that reenvisions the priesthood of all believers.
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