Missional by Design · The makers
Hold it with joy and trembling, before God and others
Rejoice in the work and take its weight: pray for the people who use it, invite those who can say no, confess mistakes plainly, and tend what you release.
From the calling
Scripture and tradition
“Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling” (Psalm 2:11). “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). “The one who leads like the one who serves” (Luke 22:26).
Praxis’s Redemptive Frame asks why we build, and answers: not “Live for Self”, nor only “Improve Yourself”, but “Die to Self”. FaithTech’s four practices, Lament, Discern, Build and Steward, ask before anything is made “whether building is wise at all”, and replace “ship it and walk away” with tending what was released.
Sources: What is redemptive entrepreneurship? · The FaithTech Playbook
What it rules in, and out
In
- Scripture read together before planning
- A pastor, a safeguarding lead and someone from the community in reviews, early
- Plain apologies and fixes
- Tending a product after launch
Out
- Theology and safeguarding as a sign-off at the end
- Success stories that make the team the hero
What the maker gives up. Speed, control and the credit.
Qualification. Practices are not a performance. A small team will keep them simply; what matters is that someone outside can say no, and is heard.
Test a design
Who outside the team holds us to account, and who prays for the people who use this?
- What would we give up for the sake of the people who use it?