Business as Mission: negócios e profissões como estratégias missionárias na janela 10/40

Abstract

This research reflects on the return of Jesus and the missionary work necessary for this to happen, presenting the scenario of ethnolinguistic groups and least evangelized countries in the world, and offers the Business as Mission strategy as a solution for advancing the gospel in these contexts. It exposes how the Movement has transformed over time and its current influence. Finally, it clarifies how Businessmen and Professionals, in practice, came from their homecountry, went to some of the least developed and least evangelized countries in the world and gained their businesses and professions to contribute to the advancement of the gospel in these contexts. It also presents how this strategy was implemented in Brazil as a pilot project, leading to the churchplanting. For this, books written by some businesspeople who reported their experiences using this strategy were used, as well as conceptual books on the Movement written by academics on the subject and reports from world organizations on the reality of these countries, as well as interviews with Businesspeople and Professionals who they are on the mission field. With this, this work confirms the prediction, influence and potential of this strategy and regular as a competent approach to open new fronts of mission work in the unrealized peoples of the world, so that they can have the opportunity to hear for the first time about Jesus Christ, feel loved and decide to follow him, making his return abbreviated.