A Redemptive Quest is

the good, hard work of
creative restoration through sacrifice,
compelled by love,
that invites us to re-risk
our reputation and resources.


Redemptive entrepreneurship is an invitation to imaginatively and sacrificially love God and neighbor through our entrepreneurial capacity, resources, and ventures. It seeks to apply the gospel to why we work, how we work, and—just as important—what we choose to work on.
 

Signs of a Redemptive Quest

  • Truly consequential to the world—worth failing at
  • Has a cascading or catalytic effect—affects systems
  • Focused on people or institutions at risk—protects the vulnerable
  • Moves the “Overton Window” in culture—shifts the possible
  • Requires sustained sacrifice and repeated re-risking—dying to self
  • Relies on long-term vision, not near-term hype—patient hope
  • Often nonobvious from a market perspective—demands imagination
  • Is compelled by love and dispassionate about credit—requires many actors

Three questions to consider

  • Am I on a redemptive quest? If so, what is it? If not, what might it be?
  • How might the difficulty level of my quest be proportionate to my personal or organizational “player level”?
  • How do my relationships and community affiliations encourage or discourage that quest?



Redemptive quests enable us to work with a thesis-driven methodology, embrace lament as a generative resource, and invest in the proximate.

Explore Redemptive Quests

A whirlwind

The Redemptive Quest Award honors long obedience in the same direction in pursuit of redemptive quests. We’re honored to recognize Mike Bontrager, Praxis Mentor and Board member, as the inaugural recipient of the Redemptive Quest Award, which recognizes his quests in the finance industry and his town of Kennett Square, PA. 

For more than three decades, Mike has created lasting influence in business, community, and family. Through a series of moves that might have seemed foolish at worst and counterintuitive at best, he has activated teams toward an audacious vision that’s still in the making.

Honoring Mike Bontrager

A whirlwind

The gospel applies not only to how we work, but perhaps even more to what we choose to work on.

DAVE BLANCHARD