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    Game On: A Christian Strategy Guide for Noobs
    Game On: A Christian Strategy Guide for Noobs
    Game On: A Christian Strategy Guide for Noobs
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    Game On: A Christian Strategy Guide for Noobs

    By Jesse Steele

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    Do Christians stand a chance of succeeding in the marketplace? Why don't Christian-directed movies dominate block buster lists? What is a "marketplace apostle"... and is the term even appropriate?

    Explore these topics and others, relating to every industry from politics to programming. Consider a few basic and universal principles that might give you the breakthrough you've been praying for.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJesse Steele
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781310066412
    Game On: A Christian Strategy Guide for Noobs
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    Jesse Steele

    Today's news, yesterday.TM I'm an American writer in Asia who wears many hats. I learned piano as a kid, studied Bible in college, and currently do podcasting, web contenting, cloud control, and brand design. I like golf, water, speed, music, kung fu, art, and stories.

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      Game On - Jesse Steele

      Game On:

      A Christian Strategy Guide for Noobs

      Jesse Steele

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      2018 Note

      The book, Memoirs of Ophannin at the time this was written, was changed to Ophannim Eye when it was revamped in 2017.

      The name was changed in this text to reflect this.

      For Mom

      Table of Contents

      ForMom

      Introduction

      The Grand Theme

      Details, 10,000 Hours, and Triangulation

      The Transition Ahead

      Team Flowers

      Freemium

      Practical Steps

      About

      Introduction

      A guitarist and singer named John Fish spoke at Moody while I was a student. He presented the idea of having "Christians in media rather than having Christian media".

      A Christian movie is an oxymoron. Since a movie isn’t a Human, it can’t be a Christian. More than a silly play on words, there is something to consider in this. A mop is a mop. A car is a car. A song is a song. Some things can reflect Christian virtues, or not, but quality and art are also important factors.

      Is it appropriate to categorize every company and every product as either Christian-made or non-Christian made? Even if such labels were used everywhere, there would be no way of knowing whether those labels tell the truth. More importantly, these labels don’t tell us everything we need to know, nor do they provide help with everything that needs help.

      Why would Christians get involved in the market? We all need the market, for starters. Perhaps getting in the game is a good alternative to complaining. Rather than boycotting a bad company or evil industry, go into business yourself and put the Devil out of business.

      I don’t presume to be the first author who has written about increasing our Christian presence in the market. There is a wide array of topics relating to the subject; not all are in this book. Here, I’ll narrow the subject as I often do—saying what is less likely to be said elsewhere.

      That’s the idea behind anything successful—uniqueness. If we are the same as everyone else then we aren’t necessary.

      On more than one occasion I’ve heard some group or organization talk about celebrating differences. Though, I’ve rarely seen an actual celebration for things that make us different. It takes maturity, not only to endure our differences, but to enjoy them. Too often, this slogan is little more than a cute version of, Stop arguing. I can’t stand anymore arguing. Just celebrate your differences and get along!

      In my few, short, thirty three years, I’ve received two lifetimes worth of lectures on why I should do things the way someone else does them. Needless to say, few of those lectures ever convinced me to conform. When they did, the lecturer changed more than I.

      That’s the way things are done, I’d hear. In those conversations, no one else seemed to understand that doing things as they are already done makes one irrelevant. In business, irrelevance is a death sentence.

      We, as the Body of Christ, are in a serious need for innovation. I don’t merely mean that we need more brainstorming rooms with chartreuse walls and purple carpet—though, that would be a nice start. We need to innovate innovation itself.

      Rita Mae Brown wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results.

      Why don’t Christians make the famous movies? Why can’t Jesus Christ be the superhero in the number one best-selling video game? Why don’t the most skilled and successful politicians write books about how their war strategy was derived by understanding why Jesus was smarter than Machiavelli? And why do wealthy entrepreneurs spend their retirement years proselytizing the population control message of the Devil, rather than the population redemption message of Jesus Christ?

      I dare to suggest that the reason people don’t like so many of our products is because our products aren’t good. Or, better said, too many of our products are good. So, few ever become great.

      It’s time for a game change. Some things that I suggest in this book will offer practical advice. Other ideas may call the reader to do some soul-searching. Most ideas will do both. We rarely come across useful information that doesn’t probe our hearts—often times, this is because the information was right in front of us all along.

      Marketplace is a difficult word for me to accept, but it is the best choice. One term that’s floating around Christian circles today is marketplace apostle. I don’t know why the word apostle is included in this term. Watchman Nee describes a simple, Biblical view of an apostle quite well in his book, Church Affairs, and a Biblical apostle doesn’t have much to do with markets and exchanges.

      A marketplace apostle usually refers to someone like Daniel or Joseph. That initially creates a problem for my free market capitalist heritage. Daniel wasn’t an entrepreneur, he was a bureaucrat appointed to a lower office within the State because of his good looks. He was later promoted due to his spiritual knowledge. Joseph, was an honorary head of State, specifically because of his combined knowledge of dreams, management, and stewardship, as well as economics and preparedness. Joseph demonstrates some of my own philosophy—that one is only qualified to lead in government if he understands the market—thus disqualifying most government leaders of our day. But I shall save any further critique of American politics for another

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