Turning the Page
December 30, 2025
Five M3 Weekly Articles Readers Found Helpful in 2025
As we come to the close of another year, it’s a natural time to pause and reflect on the ways God has guided, blessed, and challenged us over the past twelve months. It’s also a moment to look ahead with hope, trusting our faithful Father to lead us and the enterprises we steward in the year to come.
We’d like to highlight several M3 Weekly articles from this past year that particularly resonated with our readers. Whether you’re revisiting them or discovering them for the first time, we hope these pieces encourage and inspire as you turn the page into a new year.
Patience in Missional Enterprise
(April 8, 2025): In this article from our multi-article series on the Fruit of the Spirit in missional enterprise, we consider the often-overlooked discipline of patience. In a culture that values speed and immediate results, patience can feel impractical, yet Scripture presents it as essential for faithful leadership. Drawing on the biblical image of the farmer who waits for the harvest, this piece invites missional entrepreneurs to see patience not as passivity, but as an active trust in God’s timing, provision, and work beneath the surface.
Missional Enterprise and Accounting
(May 7, 2025): In this first article of a two-part series, we reflect on why accounting is far more than an administrative requirement for missional entrepreneurs. While vision and mission often capture our passion, sound accounting is essential to sustaining that work with faithfulness and integrity. Drawing on the Christian roots of modern accounting and the biblical call to stewardship, this piece reframes financial clarity as a spiritual practice that supports wise decision-making, accountability, and long-term impact. Rather than distracting from the mission, good accounting becomes one of the ways the mission is faithfully carried forward.
Redeeming Toil
(August 5, 2025): Drawing on the wisdom of Ecclesiastes 4, this article reflects on the reality that work, while intended as a gift, can become wearying and distorted when pursued in isolation. Naming common struggles such as injustice, envy, and lonely toil, it then turns toward the hope found in shared labor. For missional enterprise leaders, this piece offers a gentle reminder that we were never meant to build alone, and that working together reflects both God’s design and His sustaining grace.
Mission Drift
(September 16, 2025): In this review of Peter Greer and Chris Horst’s book Mission Drift, we explore how organizations with strong gospel foundations can slowly lose their way through subtle compromises and shifting priorities. Through compelling real-world contrasts between mission-faithful and mission-drifting organizations, the article highlights that drift is not inevitable—but resisting it requires clarity, intentionality, and courage. With practical insights on leadership, funding, hiring, and metrics, this review offers valuable guidance for missional entrepreneurs who desire to remain mission true over the long haul.
Challenges and Joys in the Journey
(November 25, 2025): In the second part of our interview with missional enterprise leaders David and Grace, we hear candid reflections on both the joys and challenges of their work in a difficult context. From balancing growth and relational depth to navigating family life, cultural expectations, and personal well-being, this conversation offers an honest window into the realities of leading a missional business. Their story encourages leaders to measure success not by status or profit alone, but by faithfulness, impact, and trust in God’s provision.
To Be Continued…
As we enter 2026, we are deeply grateful for the role each of you plays in the world of missional enterprise. Encouraged by the stories, insights, and reflections we’ve shared together this past year, let us look forward with trust in our faithful God, confident that He who has begun a good work in us will carry it on to completion.
Verse of the Week:
“being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will continue it until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6, NIV)
May God bless you with a joyful and hope‑filled New Year in 2026!
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