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Sons To Glory
for Jesus to come, while leaving the world in the hands of
Satan.” 16
Business is basic human transaction, and Jesus did most of His greatest
miracles and teachings right in the middle of the marketplace. All of
the original twelve disciples of Jesus were marketplace apostles. The
only reason there is need today to coin the term “marketplace apostle”
is because this lost art of discipleship within the business world has
been sidelined and marginalized by the professional “clergy” mindsets
of the institutional church. The real Church of Jesus Christ is not a
building or a denomination. It is a people from every tribe, tongue and
nation who have taken up their Cross to follow the Lamb wherever He
leads them even unto death. Since real people work and live their lives
in the marketplace and in the business of every day life, this is where
real ministry should take place. Jesus is our example, and He did not
build an organization, but rather He built people, and met with them
where they lived and carried out their day to day activities.
Solomon’s temple had two main foundational pillars which were
named Jachin and Boaz (1 Kings 7:21). Jachin was a priest and Boaz
was a business man. Likewise, we are all called to be priests and kings
(Rev. 1:6, 5:10) which are foundational pillars in us His temple. But
the ratio of kings to priests in Israel was 92 percent kings (11 tribes)
and only 8 percent who were in the priesthood (tribe of Levi). So the
number of marketplace apostles and ministries should far exceed those
called to full time equipping ministries. About the same percentage of
heroes in the Bible were marketplace ministers who either worked in
businesses or were farmers, fishermen, military men or government
officials. Only a relatively few people like Samuel, Ezra and Ezekiel
were full time priests.
So why does today’s Church subtly teach that in order to be really
spiritual you need to be in a full time equipping ministry? We should
have just the opposite attitude! The more mature Christians should be
the ones sent out into the harvest field to do the work. Ambassadors
should always be your BEST representatives and not your immature
cadets who have little knowledge about the ways of the king. The same
biblical principles, that made people like Daniel, David and Esther to
become marketplace ministers who brought the Kingdom of God to
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