Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Business As Mission

Mark Batterson post:  Coffee with a Cause


It’s Washington Post week.  Two articles in one week.
This one shares one of our core convictions: the church belongs in the middle of the marketplace.  That’s why we built a coffeehouse–a place where the church and community could cross paths.  That’s why we’re opening a single-screen theater.  It’s business as mission and every penny of profit goes to local community causes as well as our overseas endeavors. It’s coffee with a cause and movies with a mission.
A church that lives within its four walls isn’t a church at all. You can’t wait for people tocome to you. You’ve got to go to them. That’s the example Jesus set.

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