Ep 2168: This November, One Message Could Change Your Work
Featuring: Steve Adams
Ministry: IBAM (International Business as Mission): Kingdom Impact Summit
Business as mission is more than a catchy phrase – it’s a way of seeing your work as part of God’s kingdom purposes. And that’s exactly what the upcoming Kingdom Impact Summit is designed to explore.
Taking place virtually November 16–20, the Summit will bring together voices from business, ministry, and around the world to explore what it looks like to honor God through business. In this episode, Steve Adams of International Business As Mission (IBAM) joins once more and gives us a preview of the event while sharing his own journey from corporate banking to entrepreneurship and eventually to helping indigenous believers use business to create jobs, strengthen communities, make disciples, and advance the gospel.
Steve explains why he believes entrepreneurship is a God-given calling and why the pressures of business can actually shape and disciple us. He also shares how IBAM's Three Fish Model equips believers to operate businesses God's way, access funding, and become disciple-making entrepreneurs.
In this episode, you’ll also hear:
The remarkable story of a woman whose floral and gift business now employs people who are launching churches across Central Asia (a prime example of the work IBAM is doing)
How shifting from American-led efforts to empowering local believers dramatically increased business success rates
Why Steve believes entrepreneurship can be a "Joseph calling" that develops character through adversity
The Three Fish Model and how it connects entrepreneurship, funding, and discipleship
How Third Fish Academy is making IBAM's business training available to individuals and churches
What you can expect from this year's Kingdom Impact Summit, including stories of faith in business, overcoming adversity, multiplying disciples in the workplace, and exploring what the Kingdom of Heaven can look like in a business
Why Steve hopes one message from the Summit will ignite someone to rethink their purpose at work or in their company
Whether you're a business owner, entrepreneur, employee, or simply someone who wants to better understand how faith and work fit together, this conversation will challenge you to see business through a Kingdom lens.
And don't just listen to us talk about the Summit – go experience it for yourself! The Kingdom Impact Summit takes place virtually November 16–20, with the sessions available free for a week. Steve has brought together an incredible lineup of speakers (like Os Hillman and Jordan Raynor) and conversations with the hope that one message might be exactly what God uses to change the way someone approaches their work. Check out the Summit, invite a business owner or workplace believer to join you, and see what God might want to do through your work and business.
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