Seedbed: How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it), by John C. Knapp by Guy Williams
A couple years ago at a clergy retreat I cornered a colleague who had entered pastoral ministry after a previous career with a multinational energy company. At the time, I was preaching to a host of successful businesspeople and needed guidance. “Well, here’s where most of those people are,” my friend said. “They are busy and don’t feel they have the time to be there, but they came. And they are thinking about how the decisions they had to make on Friday are going to play out on Monday.”
The conversation made something I knew the truth of--that people have a life outside of church activities--refreshingly and challengingly concrete.
In How the Church Fails Businesspeople, John C. Knapp tackles the thorny subject of the Church’s role in helping people integrate faith and work in their Christian discipleship. ...
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