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by Michael C. R. McLoughlin,
Youth With A Mission, Marketplace Mission
A Ministry of Youth With A Mission (BC) Society.
May, 2001
Updated January, 2003
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Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
Endnotes:.................................................................................................................................9
Catching up to the Signs of the Times...................................................................................3
Change the Mindset and Method of Modern Missions.........................................................3
The Church, The Nations and the New Jerusalem................................................................4
Begin with the End in Mind.....................................................................................................4
Discipling Nations is the Purpose of the Church..................................................................4
The Professional Missionary— A Recent Phenomena.........................................................5
The “As You Go” Great Commission.....................................................................................5
A Road Less Traveled.............................................................................................................5
Secular Work IS Spiritual Work..............................................................................................5
Carey & Livingstone’s Vision for Business and Missions...................................................6
Missionary Tentmakers lead the Way....................................................................................6
A New Missions Force—Marketplace Missionaries .............................................................7
Global Movement of God in the Marketplace .......................................................................7
Marketplace Missions - A Shalom Catalyst for Nations......................................................7
Back to the Future of Missions, Forward to Nation Discipling............................................8
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Introduction
A wise man once said, “Nothing is more obscure than the obvious” (1)1 The purpose of this paper is to
explore the “obvious” implications for the modern missions movement of the future of the world both from a
Biblical perspective and a societal perspective. This is an obvious future that seems to be rather obscure in
the thinking of the modern Church. It is a future that will require new ways of thinking and new approaches
to missions.(2)2 It is also a future already anticipated by Scripture and already experienced by the Church in
its early history. It is the future that God intends the nations to come into and we, His Church, are His agents
to effect this purpose.
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The Church, The Nations and the New Jerusalem
How will the world end? One world government to control our thinking? One world religion to tempt
us to abandon our faith? Or one asteroid strike to execute the wrath of God? Take your pick. Most of the
popular eschatology(17)17 taught in the Church today isolates it and prevents it from even considering that it
has a destiny to rule the nations as the body of Christ. But what does Scripture say?
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City,
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God….I did not see a temple in the city, because the
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to
shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its
light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be
shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.
Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only
those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. ( Revelation 21:1, 21-26 NIV)
Certainly, the Book of Revelation anticipates great upheavals in the world, and disasters and
persecution of Christians, but in the end there is a glorious vision of the city of God. (18)18 John’s revelation
is instructive as much for what it does not tell us, as for what it does tell us. It does not tell us that churches
will be in the New Jerusalem, in fact, he specifically mentions that there will be no temple. The temple
represented organized religion. Instead, God and Jesus are there and it is the nations that walk by their light
not churches!
Yet, is it not the rallying cry of the modern missions movement “A church for every people group?”
(19)19 Is it not the purpose of the Church to produce more church? Is it not the objective of the missions
movement to plant churches? (20)20 Where, then, are these churches in the new Jerusalem? Of course, there
will be no churches there, but we are not there yet, so we need churches here. The purpose of the Church is
to prepare the nations for their destiny in the New Jerusalem. Too often, though, the Missions movement has
been motivated to hasten the return of Christ by getting the gospel preached to every nation with little
emphasis on seeing that gospel transform all areas of that nation. (21) 21 In reality, salvation is not the end of
the task but only the beginning, the doorway through which the nations can enter into their destiny in God.
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Endnotes:
1. This quote is from Oscar Wilde.
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2. Barrett, David B. "Forecasting the future in world mission: Some future faces of missions" Originally published in
Missiology: An International Review. Volume XV, No. 4, October 1987 Available at : http://gem-
werc.org/papers/paper002.htm Internet, accessed, April 16th, 2000.
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3. Sine, Tom. Mustard Seed versus McWorld. Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker
Books, 1999. p. 30.
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4. Cunningham, Loren with Janice Rogers. Is that Really you, God? Hearing the Voice of God. Grand Rapids, MI:
Zondervan, 1984.
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5. The Go Manual, Global Opportunities in Youth With A Mission. Seattle, WA: YWAM Publishing, 2000. p. 9.
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6. Gardner, Christine J. "Finishing Well, After achieving success, early retirees are finding significance in second-career
mission assignments" in Christianity Today, October 5, 1998 Vol. 42, No. 11, Page 72 Available from
http://www.christianityonline.com/ct/8TB/8TB072.html Internet Accessed April 16th, 2000.
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7. Halal, William E. “WORLD 2000: An International Planning Dialogue to Help Shape the New Global System “
Available at http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~halal/world2.html Internet: Accessed March 15th, 1999. Halal identifies “nine
supertrends which describe a long-term trajectory to an advanced stage of ‘global maturity.’”
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8. Barber, Benjamin R. “Jihad verses. McWorld” In the Atlantic Monthly., March 1992; Volume 269, No. 3; pages 53-
65. “The two axial principles of our age -- tribalism and globalism -- clash at every point except one: they may both be
threatening to democracy “
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9. For an in Depth look at the plight of the World's poor see “The World Development Report on Poverty and
Development 2000/01.” Available from http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/ Internet, accessed April 16th,
2000.
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10. “Children Affected and Orphaned* by HIV/AIDS: A Global Perspective” Fact Sheet provided by National Pediatric
& Family HIV Resource Center/University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ. Available at
http://www.pedhivaids.org/fact/infant_fact_g.html Internet, accessed May 3rd, 2000.
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11. From a Public Broadcasting Service Documentary entitled “Six Billion & Beyond” A Summary is available at
http://www.pbs.org/sixbillion/library/library-press.html Internet, accessed December 15th, 1999.
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12. Micro and Small Scale Enterprises in Zimbabwe, GEMINI Report, 1991.
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13. From a Lecture presented by Winkey Pratney at the YWAM North America Leaders Conference, Glorietta, May,
2000. Another source for this statistic is George Barna, Generation Next. (Regal Books)
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14. Barna, George. The Second Coming of the Church – A Revolutionary Model for the Twenty First Century. Waco,
TX: Word Books, 1998. A summary is available at http://www.wolc.org/manna/january/blueprint.html Internet,
accessed, May 3rd, 2000.
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15. Leonard Sweet in his recent books Soul Tsunami and Aquachurch has also called for a Sea Change in the way we do
church because of the nature of our post modern world. The cliché often used for this idea is “Paradigm Shift”. He says
“The truth is that change has happened. Not of degree but of kind. If we don’t understand this we will continue to try to
make a Credit card call on a rotary phone.” For more information please visit http://www.leonardsweet.com/ or
http://www.soultsunami.com/
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16. Doner, Colonel V. The Late Great Evangelical Church. Unpublished book. Excerpts available at
http://www.chalcedon.edu/report/98oct/Doner_Shrunk_Gospel.html Internet accessed May 3rd, 2000.
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17. This eschatology is taught in the popular Christian Fiction Series, Left Behind, by Tim F. Lahaye and Jerry B.
Jenkins. It is also the thesis of Pat Robertson’s new novel. End of the Age.
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18. Isaiah also describes the heavenly city and the wealth of the Nations being brought into it in Isaiah 60.
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19. Bush, Luis. "A Church for Every People by the Year 2000 - Dream or Reality? " in Mission Frontiers, The Bulletin of
the U.S. Center for World Missions. May - June 1993 Issue. Available at
http://www.missionfrontiers.org/93folder/mayjune93/mj935.htm Internet. Accessed April 16th, 2000.
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20. Winter, Ralph and Koch, Bruce A. “Finishing the Task: The Unreached Peoples Challenge” Available at
http://www.missionfrontiers.org/newslinks/finishing.htm Internet: Accessed May 3rd, 2000. “The essential missionary
task is to establish a viable indigenous church planting movement that carries the potential to renew whole extended
families and transform whole societies.”
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21. Colson, Chuck and Pearcey, Nancy. How Now Shall We Live? Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1999. p. 33.
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22. Morris, Leon. The Revelation of St. John. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
1978. p. 244 In commenting on Revelation 21:3 Morris notes, "They will be His peoples (the better MSS have the plural)
which perhaps points to the different races of men."
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23. Mouw, Richard J. When the Kings come Marching In. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983. p. 26. Mouw describes
the Kings as “the bearers, the representatives of their respective cultures. To assemble kings together, then, was in an
important sense to assemble their respective cultures.”
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24. “The conception of the Church which we tend to reproduce as the fruit of our missionary work is so much a replica of
our own, so much that of a fundamentally settled body existing for the sake of its own members rather than that of a body
of strangers and pilgrims, the sign and instrument of a supernatural and universal salvation to be revealed, that our
missionary advance tends to follow the lines of cultural and political expansion. And to falter when that advance stops.”
Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God. Paternoster Press, Reprint 1998.
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25. Cope, Landa. "Discipling the Nations, The Old Testament Template". See Chapter 1: What is wrong with this
picture? Available from http://www.ottemplate.org Internet ; accessed April 16th, 2000.
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26. In Exodus, when Moses asked God to show him His glory, God revealed His "goodness" and proclaimed His name
(identity) before Moses. (Exodus 33:19) Though fallen creatures, we are made in the image of God and there is potential
in us and in our people for goodness and for an identity in God.
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27. Sherman, Doug and Hendricks, William. Your Work Matters to God. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1993. p 43-
44.
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28. Stevens, R. Paul. The Other Six Days. Vocation, Work & Ministry in Biblical Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 200. p. 30.
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29. Stark, Rodney. The Rise of Christianity - How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant
Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries. San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins, 1997. p 29.
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30. Suter, Heinz and Gmur, Dr. Marco. Business Power for God's Purpose - Partnership with the Unreached.
Switzerland: VKG, 1997. p 13.
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31. Swarr, Sharon Bentxh and Nordstrom, Dwight. Transform the World, Biblical Vision and Purpose for Business.
Richmond, VA: Centre for Entrepreneurial and Economic Development, University of the Nations, 2000. p. 46
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32. Banks, Robert and Stevens, R. Paul, Editors. The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity on CD ROM. See the
Article on Tentmaking.
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33. Allen , Roland, The Case for the Voluntary Clergy London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930. p. 88.
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34. Beckett, John D. , Loving Monday: Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1998 p 65-69. Available at
http://www.lovingmonday.com/docs/book/chap09.html.
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35. Grimes, Howard. In The Layman in Christian History – a Project of the Department on the Laity of th world Council
of churches. Edited by Stephen Charles Neill and Hans-Rudi Weber. London, UK: SCM Press LTD., 1963. Grimes states,
“Serious questions have been raised concerning much of the American churches’ understanding of the laity and the work
currently being carried on by layman. It is too much church-centred, too little world-centred. Too much of what the
Church does now is to use laymen rather than helping the laity be the Church in the world.” P. 256.
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36. Sherman, Doug. and Hendricks, William. Op cit. p. 43.
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37. Carey, William. Carey's "Enquiry..." “Section 4 - The Practicability Of Something Being Done, More Than What Is
Done, For The Conversion Of The Heathen.” Available from http://www.grace.org.uk/mission/enquiry4.html Internet ;
accessed April 13th, 2000.
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38. Danker, William J. Profit for the Lord. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1971. p. 64.
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39. Excerpt from a lecture delivered at Cambridge University, December, 1857.
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40. Wilson, Dr. J. Christy Wilson. "Tentmaking: The Wave of the Future" December 27, 1996 Message to Urbana
Missions Conference. Available from http://www.grace.org.uk/mission/enquiry4.html Internet ; accessed April 13th,
2000.
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41. Lai, Patrick. “Tentmaking - In Search Of A Workable Definition.” Available at http://www.sim.org/letters/tent.html
Internet, accessed on April 16th, 2000.
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42. Cos, John. "The Tentmaking Movement in Historical Perspective" in International Journal of Frontier Missions,
Volume 14, Number 5, July-September, 1997. p111.
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43. Swarr, Sharon Bentxh, op cit. p. 55. The author tells the story of two Great Commission Businesses in closed
countries that partner with missions agencies to see churches planted.
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44. Miller, Paul H. "The bi-Vocational Minister: Desirable for Africa?" Ogbomoso Journal of Theology no. 2 (Dec
1986): 19-32.
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45. Banks, Robert. And Stevens, R. Paul Op. Cit Article on the Theology of Tentmaking.
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46. Bosch, David J. Transforming Mission. Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission. Maryknott, NY: Orbis books, 1998.
p. 467.
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47. McLoughlin, Michael. Editor, The Scruples Directory of Marketplace Ministry. 2000 Edition. Available at
www.scruples.net Internet, accessed April 16th, 2000
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48. Quote on Life@work Website. Internet, www.lifeatwork.com Accessed March 15th, 2000. Also quoted in The Fourth
Frontier, Exploring the New World of Work by Addington & Graves, 2000. Available at
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49. Senge, P. M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York: Doubleday, 1990).
P. 5. as quoted in the Article on Vocation in The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity on CD ROM.
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50. Cope, Landa. Op Cit.
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51. Mike McLoughlin is the missionary mentioned. For more information on CETZAM you can visit
http://www.scruples.org/web/entrust/cetzam.htm For more details on the story of CETZAM visit
http://www.ywamconnect.com/sites/mpmission .
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52. This quote is taken from the Shalom Zone Web Site. http://www.gbgm-umc.org/bluffroadumc/ZONE.HTM
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53. Miller, Darrow L. with Guthrie, Stan. Discipling the Nations – The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures. Seattle,
WA: YWAM Publishing, 1998. p. 270.
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55. Morgan, Timothy C. A Tale of China's Two Churches. Eyewitness reports of repression and revival." In Christianity
Today, July 13, 1998 Vol. 42, No. 8, Page 30. "China scholars say the surge of working-age adults from rural villages to
industrial areas, along with urban employment, has created a displaced "floating population" of 100 million people,
desperate for work and living on the margins of society."
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56. The Lausanne Covenant, Available at www.lausanne.org .