Church For Monday: Equipping Believers for Mission at Work

Church for Monday book poses an urgent question: "Is the Christian church in North America ready to take on the transformation challenge and enter the marketplace to innovate, love and live on mission?" It encourages believers to act in an entrepreneurial manner and partner with God in his work in the world. This type of church, called Church for Monday, have grown in the awareness that as the gap between practicing Christians and the unchurched has dangerously widened, the 8-to-5 window (the work day), has become an important mission field, because at work is where the majority of the people spend the most of their waking hours. Review "There are some books that, in God's providence,are written by exactly the right person and come along at just the right timeto forward God's redemptive mission in this world.Church for Monday: Equipping Believers for Mission at Work by Dr.Svetlana Papazov fits that description perfectly. With the first-hand insightof a practitioner and the visionary lens of a spiritual entrepreneur, Dr.Papazov shows us that reaching the 8-to-5 workday window (where most unchurchedpeople spend the majority of their waking hours) is both essential and doable.The result: an embedded Church that integrates faith into the real-worldenvironments of ordinary people with whole-life transformation as the outcome.Now, that gets my blood pumping! Church for Monday is a breakthrough book forministry leaders willing to take innovative risks to reach their communities,and a must-read for anyone who longs to see the Good News reach beyond SundayChurch into a waiting, 7-day-a-week world."-Dr. JodiDetrick, Author ofThe Jesus-HeartedWoman"Many of us who love the church know that all isnot well. While some congregations are growing explosively, many others are indecline, aging and seemingly irrelevant to the communities that surround them.While the worldwide church is growing at unprecedented rates, church membershipis declining at alarming rates in the USA. Likely there will be many new modelsdeveloped to address this decline, but one worth serious consideration is theChurch for Monday model put forward in this excellent book. Dr. SvetlanaPapazov's writing is easy to read, applicable, and challenging. It will whetyour appetite for how church can bereimagined to bring themarketplace and ministry together in very innovative ways that can help boththe church and the community flourish."-Ivan L.Filby, PhD, President - Greenville University, Greenville IL"Church forMonday is a book that will awaken your imagination and ignite a passion inyour heart to close the gap between faith and work. This book will help you seethe people you interact with each day as more than just casual acquaintances,but as those whom God has placed in your life to experience His love."-Jeff Greer,Senior Pastor, Grace Chapel, Mason, OH From the Author Friends,I hope that reading the pages of this book stirred your zeal to integrate faith and work to experience a spiritual,social, and economic transformation, spurred your imagination toward becoming a Church for Monday, and made you determined to show your neighbor that church is not only what we do on Sunday but what we live out on Monday and throughout the week. It is now time to put aside the cup of coffee we've shared while charting the path forward so we can get ready to move toward action. To be apprentices of Jesus is to practice what we learn and even practice while we learn.From the depths of my heart I pray that you will seek God's redemptive futures for your communities so you can have eyes to see your Jeremiahs as Jesus sees them, have hearts that break for them as Jesus'does, and have compassion that pours forth from a well that never dries. You now know that our main role is to build a Sunday-to-Monday bridge to the divine grace available to the broken people in our communities. Picture with me a human connect bridge construct