How God Is in Business
An exploration of how God's presence and principles operate within business and work.
Business is God’s arrangement. Human beings didn’t think it up. They put some variations on it, but it is a part of God’s arrangement, by which human beings love and serve one another. It is an extension of the basic human relationships that we have in family, that reach out to neighbors and communities, and it is a fundamental structure of love in the kingdom of God. I’ll say that again: Business is a fundamental structure of love in the kingdom of God.
To love and serve someone means to favor what is good for them, and to be prepared to help them fulfill it, even if that means disapproving of their desires and decisions, and attempting to, as appropriate, prevent their fulfillment. The fact that someone does or does not want something does not necessarily mean that it’s in their interest, does it?
the aim of business is to make provision for the needs of the people in an area.
The aim of business is not to make money. Just like the aim of churches is not to attract people. Is it important to make money? Yes it is. Is it important to attract people? Yes it is. But that’s not the mark of success. And that’s where we have to have a different place to stand.
The place of discipleship is wherever I am now. It’s wherever I am now, and whatever I am doing now.
“How do you get Christianity into the boardroom?” My answer was very simple: “Have a Christian walk in and sit down.” There isn’t any other way.
A morally good person is a person who is intent upon advancing the various goods of human life with which they are in effective contact.
discipleship is not just a matter of learning what He says, but learning to do everything that I do in the way that He would do it if He were I.
God is more interested in your life than he is in any of the other things there. He’s more interested in the person you are becoming than in your work or your ministry or your job.
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