Adventures in Missional Entrepreneurship
A venture studio for the final generation. Tools, training, and systems to help people step out of broken systems and establish intentional communities.
A New Chapter Begins
#01Documenting the journey starting an Advent Venture Studio
This is a post that, if I am being honest, I almost gave up hope that I would get to write. Let me explain... most people who knew me in a previous chapter knew me as an entrepreneur, someone who lived in the world of strategy, startups, and scaling.
The Wake-Up Call
#02Rediscovering God's Love in the First Angel's Message
In my previous post I introduced the beginning of a new chapter… this post is about the foundation of that chapter. Because if I'm going to talk about Advent Ventures then we have to start where God starts. With love.
Time to Stand Up
#03Assisting the work of the Second Angel's Message
In contemplating the the guiding principles of Advent Venture Studio, in the last post we looked to the First Angel as our primary filter for what we build and why we build it. The second tenet naturally comes from the Second Angels Message.
A Response to Love
#04Responding to God's Love is the Third Angel's Message
In contemplating the the guiding principles of Advent Venture Studio, we looked at the First Angel and Second Angel Messages… and now we arrive at the Third Angel. Strangely, this is the message most often misunderstood in Adventist circles.
Giving the Loud Cry
#05Preparing for the Loud Cry of the Fourth Angel's Message
In the last post related to the Three Angels Messages… the guiding principles of Advent Venture Studio… there emerged a very simple analogy in the "steps to Christ". Simple enough for a child to understand it. Clear enough that a scholar could still miss it.
The Loud Cry Needs (Infra)structure
#06A call for a modern Tribe of Issachar
There is a quiet assumption floating through Adventism that the Loud Cry will somehow solve the very problems it requires. That revival itself will generate order. That somehow God's power will substitute for our lack of preparation.
Why There Are No Adventist Venture Studios (Yet)
#07A call to rethink entrepreneurship.
You can walk into almost any Adventist circle of young professionals and hear the same quiet pattern... There are entrepreneurs, but they feel alone. There are ideas, but they feel unsupported.
Why Entrepreneurship Matters in Adventism
#08A Call for Innovators
Every movement that changes the world rides a predictable curve… The adoption bell curve starts with a tiny minority... the Innovators. Then come Early Adopters. Then the majority follows... slowly.
The Greatest Danger to Adventist Innovation
#09A call for Early Adopters.
In the last post we focused on the first stage in the adoption bell curve... Innovators. In this post we focus on what may actually be the most important stage... Early Adopters.
Motivation behind Ideation
#10More than inspiration, its triangulation
Ok, so we feel the problem… let's do more than just talk about the problems. Let's discuss and act on the solutions. As I detail in my Missional Entrepreneurship course, this puts us at the ideation stage.
The -1 + 1 Problem
#11Call for Transformational Brands
In Post #10 we talked about ideation as triangulation. Not praying for more ideas, praying for more accuracy in who to serve. Because most people do not fail from lack of passion, they fail because they never locate what is real.
Customer Persona Journey
#12A Call for a Missional Mindset
When most marketers hear the word persona, they picture someone frozen in time... A profile card. A demographic. A pain point list. But missional business requires a different mindset. Transformational brands do not see people as fixed. They see people on a continuum.
The Advent Movement
#13A Call to Action
The importance of a brand cannot be overstated... because a brand is not a logo, or a palette, or a vibe. A brand is a promise you make in public... and then keep in private. It is the thing people feel before they can explain it.
