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  <title>The local church as business partner with Adam Muhtaseb and Dan Mackett</title>
  <description>Startup businesses are risky and prone to failure.&amp;amp;nbsp; Church planting is difficult, costly and time-consuming.&amp;amp;nbsp; What might happen when you combine the two?&amp;amp;nbsp; Our guests on this episode—Dan Mackett the founder of Redemption Collective and Adam Muhtaseb, the pastor of Redemption City Church—join us to talk about just that.&amp;amp;nbsp; We dig into how new businesses and new churches can partner in a way that effectively utilizes commercial real estate and increases the likelihood of success of both kinds of startups: church plants and new businesses.&amp;amp;nbsp; Conversation Highlights: --Imagine kicking off a potential partnership between a church plant and business start-up by finding a dead person on the doorstep of the property. --Realizing the need for a strategy for optimizing commercial real estate to make urban church planting more sustainable long term. --The goal is running Kingdom-oriented business Monday-Saturday, in order to support the ministry of the local church. --&amp;quot;Evangelism is doing ordinary things with gospel intentionality.”&amp;amp;nbsp; The local business-local church partnership enables many natural opportunities for evangelism. --Decisions that might feel like sacrifices to a typical church are calculated risks taken to enable growth. --This partnership illustrates how Christian business owners use their unique gifting in business may be their primary means of serving and equipping their local church. --Combining a vision of successful businesses that also enable church plants in cities to stay afloat in their communities. --How do you not take advantage of lower-income residents of a city neighborhood when creating a church-business partnership? --Pursuing the goal of more flourishing for people in neighborhoods where the businesses and churches will be located. --What kind of people are a good fit for leading a church planting/new business partnership? &amp;amp;nbsp; Learn more: Connect with Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-mackett-00272442/ Learn more about Redemption Collective: https://www.redemptioncollective.org/ Connect with Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-muhtaseb-611341143/ Learn more about Redemption City Church: https://www.rccbaltimore.org/ </description>
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