LAKE CHARLES, La. — Within every Southern Baptist church there are people who can take the gospel around the world — business professionals, International Mission Board (IMB) President Tom Elliff said.
Elliff announced a new component to the IMB’s partnership with Southern Baptist churches during the March 20–21 trustee meeting at Trinity Baptist Church in Lake Charles, La.: “ … a global, strategic mobilization of businessmen and (business)women, corporate leaders across the [Southern Baptist] Convention … ”
Through global strategic mobilization (GSM), the IMB will offer business leaders and their organizations training and equipping to be “active, effective sowers of the seed of the gospel across the world.”
The goal is to multiply Great Commission impact by mobilizing business leaders as well as other leaders in their professions across the SBC to “carry the light” of the gospel into their arenas, Elliff said, noting that the GSM concept is an acknowledgement of the first-century practice of believers carrying the gospel along Roman roads of commerce.
In May 2011, the IMB created a marketplace initiatives task force that has been studying scriptural practices and contemporary possibilities throughout the business world. This May, a team of business leaders will meet in Dallas to provide an additional “think tank” as GSM is developed.
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