This presentation is on on Marketplace Ministry and Christian Vocation was for the Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston by Andrew Sears

1. Marketplace Ministry

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Esther 4:12-14
 “When Esther’s words were reported to
Mordecai, he sent back this answer: “Do not
think that because you are in the king’s house
you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you
remain silent at this time, relief and
deliverance for the Jews will arise from another
place, but you and your father’s family will
perish. And who knows but that you have come
to your royal position for such a time as this?”

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Personal
Vocation
Christian Vocation:
Love God, Love
Others
Human Vocation:
Co-Creators
Human, Christian & Personal Vocation

4. - Frederick Buechner

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Four Questions of Personal
Vocation
Calling
What are you good at?
Does the world need?What do you enjoy?
Will the world pay?
Internal Motivation
(deep gladness)
External Motivation
(world’s deep hunger)
Status
Meaning
Status without Meaning
• Empty success
• Corporate drone
Meaning without Status
• Financially unsustainable
• Starving volunteer
Internal
• Underemployed
• Starving artist
External Motivation
• Burnout
• Joyless worker

6. Dimensions of Christian Vocation
From The Other Six Days. R. Paul Stevens

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Barriers to True Vocation
1. Debt vs. Frugal Freedom
2. Mother Theresa vs. You
3. Fallacy of ministry vs. secular career
4. Respectibility vs. Following Jesus
5. Too Busy vs. Leveraged Service
6. Passive Guilt vs. Active Priority

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Steps to Increase Meaning in Vocation
1. Expose yourself to the world’s deep need
2. Get in touch with your heart’s passion
3. Make your top priority finding your
calling (aligning your life with God’s will)
4. Sacrifice

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We are all royalty like Esther and
were made for “such a time as
this.”
1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special
possession, that you may declare the praises of
him who called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light.”

10. Growth of Productivity: 1 person in
1800 does the work of 2.67 people
from 1300

11. Today: 1 person today does work
of 80 people from 1300

12. Genius in the Information Economy
“A great lathe operator commands several times
the wage of an average lathe operator, but a
great writer of software code is worth 10,000
times the price of an average software writer."
– Bill Gates
X 10,000 = 800,000

13. Does Technology Hurt or Help the Poor?

15. 95% of economic growth since 2009 went to the top 1%

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Education Crisis
 Only 50.2% of Black high schoolers
graduate compared to 73.4%
nationally
◦ 72% Black men not graduating high school
are unemployed
◦ 60% of black men not graduating high
school spend time in prison by their mid-30’s
 Only 30% of low-income Black and
Latino students go on to college
compared to 78% of high-income
White students.
 Only 6.7% of people globally have
college degrees compared to 40% in
the USA

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Our Mission
Our Values are Jesus, Justice and Technology.
Our Mission is to empower others to transform at-risk
communities in Jesus’ name through technology
Technology
Under
Resourced
Communities
(Justice)
Christian
Social
Services
(Jesus)

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20. Jesus the First Techie: Tektōn

21. Jesus the First Techie: Tektōn

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Questions for Discussion
1. Do you think there’s a difference between sacred work
and secular work? Do you view your work as ministry?
What might cause you to not view your work as ministry
that is sacred?
2. Have you integrated your personal faith with the
occupation your career? What would you do differently if
you viewed ministry as a 24 hour/7 days a week
activity?
3. Which of the imbalances of calling have you most
experienced in your vocation? What ideas do you have for
restoring balance in your vocation?
4. What are the barriers to achieving more balance in your
vocation? What steps do you think you need to take?