What does it mean to restore God's economy? Mike McLoughlin explains what it means to transform our work.

Following is Chapter 7 of The 9 to 5 Window: How Faith Can Transform the Workplace by Os Hillman, Regal Books, pub. September 2005. This chapter chronicles the current activities of the faith at work movement.

Os Hillman cites 7 reasons he believes there is a growing interest in faith at work.

Os Hillman, President, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries, presented this prayer during the Atlanta Global Day of Prayer on May 15. 2005 Philips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia

A glance at a modern movement of God through descriptive book titles that have been published over the last seventy-plus years.

How do you market your workplace message to the media? Andria Hall, former CNN anchor and workplace ministry leader provides 7 tips.

This overview is a way to look at the development of the 20th Century’s "Marketplace Movement." This glance at a modern movement of God looks at descriptive book titles that have been published over the last seventy-plus years.

What is marketplace mission really all about? Is about converting others? Is it about caring for God’s creation? Is it about doing work well? Is it about justice for the oppressed? Is it about the Christian faith being introduced into the marketplace through these various approaches? What is marketplace mission and why is it important to grasp a new paradigm that incorporates these approaches but goes farther?

There’s a fresh wind blowing in a number of churches across the U.S. right now. It’s blowing in some of the smallest as well as the largest mega-churches. This fresh wind is a new emphasis on how to equip and commission the church member where he or she spends the majority of their time - - the 9 to 5 window. For years we’ve heard about sending missionaries to the 10/40 window of unreached people groups. However, many church leaders have been frustrated in their ineffectiveness to impact the 80/20 rule in their local congregations. That rule says that 20% of the people do 80% of the ministry. Part of the problem lies in the way churches attempt to equip these people.

In the time of revival, at the turn of the last century in Britain, it was as if God poured out an entrepreneurial gift on his church and people started doing things that were unheard of. These are the people, normal people in the pews, that God got a hold of and helped them to use their entrepreneurial skills to change society, to see churches grow, and to see missions grow. One of them was Arthur Guinness.