Why Launching Startups is One of the Best Ways You Can Serve Your Community

Before I stepped into bivocational ministry and then startups, later on, I had naively assumed that the most significant value I could bring or add to a community was starting a worship service (i.e., planting a church). As a pastor, that was my chief goal. Start a church, pray like crazy it grows, help people grow in Christ, and repeat. I was wrong.

Well, not wrong, just misguided. Maybe not misguided. My thinking was underdeveloped. My understanding of the overarching missio Dei was in its infa...