The rēp Vision

Our byline is Repurposing Business—Transforming Society (TM).

What we do, at a practical level, is repurpose businesses so that they align with God’s purpose for business. The aim of the repurposing is the transformation of society, or discipling of nations. The businesses with whom we work have an incredible reach. For example, ten businesses in Indonesia serve 10% of the country’s population! The potential impact of repurposing 100-200 corporations in five years is tremendous.

Practically, this started with individuals and households, and it extended to whole communities or societies.

We tackle this task knowing that God has placed a similar vision on the hearts of many others; this must be the case to get the job done. At the same time we recognize that there are distinct areas in which he has gifted us, and so we are attempting to capture these in a format that will serve the broadest audience possible while maintaining a level of quality that will preserve their potency. What are some of the distinctives of the rēp offering?

  • Our principles of alignment & integration
    • Corporate and personal
  • Our plan
    • Many-to-many, the business as a biblical “household”: The Power of 10
    • Society-wide transformation, sphere-by-sphere
  • Our products
    • The I4 Methodology(r), Web-based assessments, published research
    • I-Operations, Convergence, Leadership Journals, articles, and books in the works
  • Our people
    • God has given us an amazing group of highly skilled businesspeople. Over 200 have been trained and served on Ventures to date.

In and of themselves these are not enough. The heart of the rēp venture is a corps of people who are passionate about the integration of faith and work, career and call, occupation and vocation. They are people who are not willing to wait for a call to happen to them one day; they are hearing God’s call to them today. They are learning by doing; they are going until God calls them to stay. The rēp associates are trying to see what God is doing through business in society, so that they can throw their lot in with him.

A five year plan to transform a society

We will encourage believers to make a five-year commitment to the countries to which they feel directed.

  • Targeting each of the 10 spheres of society
  • Looking for organizations that could grow 10-fold
  • Taking the “man of peace” concept in Luke 10 and extending it to a “business of peace”