Tag: Robert Lupton
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Rethinking Mission Trips – Bob Lupton
I first encountered Bob Lupton almost twenty-five years ago while in graduate school at Eastern University. Over the years, my appreciation for his insight into community/economic development has only grown. He has written two very important and engaging books that I recommend to everyone in recent years. First is his book, Compassion, Justice and the…
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Franchising the Kingdom
FCS Urban Ministries: Franchising the Kingdom Robert Lupton Franchising is a rather ingenious concept. Take a restaurant that has built a reputation for the best chicken sandwich in town. A flood of business motivates the owner to open another location which builds on the success of the first. The second restaurant does equally well and…
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Economic Fallacies: “Zero-Sum Game”
The Zero-Sum Game Fallacy views wealth as a fixed quantity meaning the only way someone gets wealthy is at someone else's expense. There are three possible types of games in the world. First, there is the lose-lose game. There are not many examples of this one. I always think of the 1983 movie War Games…