Marketplace Christianity - Rob Fraser - Cliffnotes
Marketplace Christianity - Rob Fraser - Cliffnotes
Marketplace Christianity - Rob Fraser - Cliffnotes
• Ch 4. Leadership gift
• Leaders as those who “create meaning so that others can think and act.” Leaders are usually visionaries who
articulate their vision, recruit well, think strategically, initiate change, disrupt the continuum and create
chaos. As we saw before, managers are leaders’ critical counterparts. They turn chaos into order, put the
right people in the right roles and clearly define goals, roles and boundaries. They design systems and
processes that bring out each person’s best, causing him or her to perform at a higher level than he or she
otherwise would. Managers maximize efficiency so activity produces results and no resources are wasted.
Leaders define the “why,” managers define the “how.”
• Problem today in churches : that church leaders are generally not true leaders. “The people who fill the
positions of leadership in churches today are, for the most part, teachers—good people, lovers of God, well-
educated, gifted communicators – but not leaders,” Barna wrote. “They do not have or understand vision.
They are incapable of motivating and mobilizing people around God’s vision. They fail to direct people’s
energies and resources effectively and efficiently.
• Need to bring skilled leaders into churches
• Church has been defined as meetings and programs at church. Big problem.
• Creates competition for roles and opportunity
• Disengages 97% not called to serve inside church
• Hinders God's intended marketplace revival. 5-fold ministry shld be empowering marketplace
christians for ministry in the marketplace
• Pastors wld do well to invest 80% of efforts on marketplace believers who are effective (multiply impact of
the effective)
• 3 ways pastors can build marketplace ministry
• Acknowledge publicly
• Publicly bless
• Start prayer meetings for marketplace ministers