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Why does Business fail as Mission? - Interview with Entrepreneur Samuel Gurel

Published on: 3rd May, 2022

This is a PROFOUND interview!

Hear from a truly global entrepreneur who has seen it all. From operating a redemptive coffee company in remote China all the way to flying private jets … when you hear his story you will be understand.

Samuel Gurel a legendary Redemptive Entrepreneur. Follow along as he unpacks major life lessons and authentically addresses the hits and misses in his journey.

Check out these highlights:

  • Is it ok to just go do business?
  • Repenting of becoming a missionary
  • Cultural pressure to do something ‘spiritual’
  • We were created to hear the voice of God!
  • How do you get to the point where things just work?
  • How do you gauge effectiveness?
  • What happens when you actually surrender to the Lord?
  • Minor shifts made things fall into place for Kingdom impact
  • The leading and trailing indicators of holistic success in your calling
  • Finding the right FIT and not FORCING something
  • The risk of comparing yourself to others
  • Finding freedom to really WORK
  • The value of working a for someone else
  • Recognizing your work is of EQUAL importance in the Kingdom
  • What do you do when you feel unqualified for your calling?
  • Core principles of business that work in any industry
  • The 2 part ‘WIN’ on any given day
  • How do you manage your impact on the people around you?
  • Business thinker or Ministry thinker?
  • The keys to identifying the place of FAVOR and GRACE in your life
  • The secrets to an effective MISSIONS or BUSINESS calling
  • How do you find the RIGHT kind of mentor?
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About the Podcast

The Metron Manager Project
Recovering the Dignity and Mission of Vocation
The Metron Manager Podcast is a dynamic program that will equip you to become a successful Metron Manager! This transformational program will catalyze your journey to recover the dignity and mission of vocation!

Based on his book, Managing Your Metron, Jonathan Nowlen brings a refreshing and hope filled approach to Theology of Work and the Future of Christian Mission. Crucial concepts and Biblical perspectives are explored and interviews with Christian thought leaders in the workplace will inspire and develop everyone who is called to work in the Kingdom of God.

Jonathan is passionate about recovering the dignity and mission of vocation. He is a career missions leader who has worked in 60 countries over the last few decades. He is the host of the Metron Manager Podcast and author of Managing Your Metron: A practical Theology of Work, Mission and Meaning.

Jonathan is a an experienced strategist, leader, public speaker, coach, consultant and equipper. Currently Jonathan is focused on missionized theology of work and equipping believers to advance the Kingdom through their vocation. After 11 years as executive director of an international, educational non-profit, he founded the Metron Manager Project.

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Jonathan Nowlen

WELCOME TO THE METRON MANAGER PROJECT!
My Name is Jonathan Nowlen and I am the Founder of the Metron Manager Project and the Author of the book titled Managing Your Metron: A Practical Theology of Work, Mission and Meaning.

The Metron Manager Project is all about equipping you to become who you were originally designed to be and find your place in the Kingdom of God.

“I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.”
— BILLY GRAHAM (LATE 2000)

God has given me a vision to be part of what many believe is the next great move of God by launching the Metron Manager Project. I have been fully engaged in the cause of Christ and His Kingdom enterprise for over 25 years. As such I have gained wide experience and perspective on the trajectory of the modern mission effort. As a missionary kid I grew up primarily outside the USA in remote and developing countries. After embracing my own call to serve in missions I began working in the socially and economically devastated regions of the former Soviet Union in the early to mid 1990’s. From there I participated in or led missional efforts from Southeast Asia to South America, and from Europe to Africa, covering 60 countries.

I’ve seen the edges of heaven and walked in the streets of hell. I’ve seen the power of God transform lives and nations through average believers like myself who have chosen to hear and obey. I believe that we are entering a new era of mission in spiritual history. This era is marked by the missionizing of believers in the marketplace. ‘On Mission’ is the new mode of every believer in every sphere of society. My book, Managing Your Metron, launched this Metron Manager Project with the aim of providing a reformational understanding of Work, Mission and Meaning.

The vision of the Metron Manager Project is to provide training, resources and theology that will recover the dignity and mission of vocation. Billy Graham’s prescient statement about the next move of God coming through believers in the workplace is a vision of the future that I and many others believe has now arrived. It is time to rethink mission and the Kingdom of God as a new era is upon us. Spiritual history is demanding a broadening of our understanding of what it means to respond to the Great Commission. (Matthew 28:18-20) I invite you to join in this journey to become a Metron Manager and recover the dignity and mission of your vocation.

– Jonathan Nowlen
Founder: The Metron Manager Project
Author: Managing Your Metron: A Practical Theology of Work, Mission and Meaning