Business as Mission Best Practice Guidelines

Businesses are almost as varied as the entrepreneurs and professionals who create and work in them. Nevertheless, there are good business practices which are widely recognized as being essential. This document is not intended to be prescriptive, narrow in application, or exhaustive. Rather, its goal is to provide a checklist of items (generally in the form of questions), which, if given careful consideration, and appropriately applied to each unique business as mission (BAM) situation, should assist BAM practitioners (BAMers) in achieving the desired Christ-honouring outcomes. It is recommended that this document should be studied at the earliest possible stage when an individual is considering serving as a BAMer, and periodically throughout their BAM ministry. Doing this in consultation with their accountability group, co-workers, and other leaders will in all likelihood help maximize the benefit of this exercise.