Reformation Ministries International Corp

Ministry is often characterized by many Christians to mean: preaching, Sunday school teaching, music and singing, public speaking in Christian outreach programs such as this, and many forms of evangelism, but in fact, ministry is much more than that.

Ministry is what you are gifted by God to do.  I Corinthians 12; lists some of the possibilities but it is not an exhaustive list.  However, it is clear that Paul is expanding the perception of ministry even for those of his day.  Unfortunately, over the last several hundred years, especially since the Reformation, our ideas of ministry have gradually narrowed to what we most commonly hear described today.  One of the most outstanding and cultural revolutions of the Reformation was the understanding that God's elect were intended to be successful in the gifts and callings that they possessed and that they were to excel in their service and business undertakings with each other and their neighbors.  It is this fact of reformation history that set the stage for the great progress and work ethic of the western civilization and not the often touted sex revolution, art and music of the renaissance.  The Reformation was the moral and spiritual paradigm that followed the renaissance and gave us the leaders that formed the moral basis western civilization and for our own great country.

Consider this short excerpt from the full report on Business as Mission

The term Business as Mission is relatively new, but the concept and various applications are not. There are many historical examples of Christians doing business in such a way that people and societies have been transformed and God glorified.