Can Your Business Become a Spiritual Juggernaut?
I In the Old Testament, we noted that businesses took on spiritual significance. In the beginning, God created work, and by
extension, business, as the venue in which he would interact with mankind. We saw that the command to be circumcised was left in the hands of the business people. We saw that business and the marketplace were the places where spiritual gifts were exercised. And, we saw that God chose business people to lead almost every major movement of His people.
All these point to a spiritual
significance for the Biblical business. In the New Testament, that spiritual significance is given a figurative shot of steroids.
The spread of Christianity in the early days was, to a large degree, achieved through the conversion of households -- everyone at the same time.
The church was born on the holy day of Pentecost after Christ’s resurrection with a major event in Jerusalem. The Bible indicates that over 3,000 Jews were converted and baptized in that first day. After a period of solidification, the church was ready for the next step – going off into the world and making disciples of every nation.
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616-451-9377 It was at this point that the primacy of business in God’s strategy becomes apparent. He uses the business -- which was already an entity that provided physical sustenance, prosperity, a sense of identity and a set of relationships – as the cellular unit of the infant
church.
First, we witness a phenomenon which set the stage for the pattern that continued through the early days of the church – the head of the business believing, and the whole organization then following that lead -- God working through businesses to achieve his purpose.
We can pick up the story in the book of Acts. The apostles were active in and around Jerusalem, preaching the good news of Jesus to the Jewish people. They viewed the ministry of Jesus as an extension of the way God had worked with the Jewish people. It never occurred to them the good news was to be shared with non-Jewish people – known as the gentiles.
But God had other plans and signaled his intentions via a prophecy. Here’s the story. As Peter was traveling, he stopped in an inn to get something to eat and rest a bit. There, he fell into a trance, and saw of vision. As he is pondering the meaning of it, some other visitors arrive. They are emissaries from Cornelius, a Roman Centurion, who lived in the area. Before this, Peter, and all the Jewish apostles would
have been extremely reluctant to speak to a gentile, especially a Roman military commander. But, Peter then understood his vision as directing him to take the gospel to the gentiles as well as the Jews. So, he went with Cornelius’s servants to visit in the home of the Roman commander, and to share the good news with him. This was a major turning point in the spread...[Click Here To Read The Entire Article Online] Listen to Dave's Complimentary Podcast!
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