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R. PAUL STEVENS, Professor Emeritus, Regent College, Vancouver, BC

TOPIC: “God-Inspired Inventiveness & Creativity in Business and Life”

DESCRIPTION:  As an entrepreneur in this session Paul presents the biblical and spiritual basis of creativity and innovation. Human beings, made in the image of God, are creating creatures, built by our God to invent, develop and imagine new things and new ways of doing things. Entrepreneurship turns out to be essential for the flourishing of the human enterprise and the economic system in particular. People of faith do not have a monopoly on inventiveness but they should be, and can be, the most creative people on earth. They have a God who invites risk-taking as suggested in the Parable of the Talents (Matt 25). Further, the will of God, far from being an initiative dampening fiat is really an empowering vision the very things that make entrepreneurship thrive: invention and implementation.    

BIO: R. Paul Stevens, Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology, Regent College, (www.regent-college.edu) is a leading practical theologian and educator in the evangelical world with respect to empowering Christians to pursue their calling in the marketplace. Paul has been a pastor for 20 years (Montreal and Vancouver), a student counselor with IVCF, a business person (Habitat Woodcraft) and a professor in an interdisciplinary theological college for the whole people of God. From 1999 until 2005 Paul was the David J. Brown Family Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, BC.

His mission is to empower ordinary people to integrate their faith and life from Monday to Sunday. He does this through teaching, coaching, advocating and publishing. He is married to Gail, has three married children and eight grandchildren. Gail and Paul have resided in Vancouver since 1969 and travel to all continents to teach, learn and contribute. Paul is passionate about the integration of faith and life, faith and work, making the other six days full of meaning and ministry. Paul’s education includes two Bachelor degrees from McMaster University and McMaster Divinity College, Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary and a DD from McMaster University.

Representative books and study guides which Paul has published include: Liberating the Laity (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1985), Fulfilling Work (Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1989/91), The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work and Ministry in Biblical Perspective (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans and Vancouver: Regent Publishing, 1999), Doing God’s Business: Meaning and Motivation for the Marketplace (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), Taking Your Soul to Work: A Biblical Perspective on Labor (with Alvin Ung, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010), The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity (with Robert Banks, eds., Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997), The Marketplace Ministry Handbook (with Robert Banks) Regent Publishing, 2006), Work Matters: A Biblical Perspective on Labor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), and Entrepreneurial Leadership: Finding Your Calling, Making A Difference (with Richard Goossen, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2013). Many of these books are available in Chinese, Korean, and Indonesian.