Shift Your Paradigm! Integrating Christian Faith and Day-to-Day Business #1

by Dave Kahle

“How do I integrate my Christian faith with my day-to-day business practices?”

            That’s a question that almost every Christian considers from time to time. And, while that question may have been seen as mildly important as we mused on it several years ago, the rapid deterioration of our culture has suddenly injected it with an ASAP urgency.

            It was a lifestyle to which many of us adhered. Call it comfortable compartmentalization. It was the spiritual status quo. It meant that we got by being somewhat involved in church on Sundays and doing no grievous wrong during the week.

            In the last few years, all of that has changed.  Today, we are living in the world which has risen out of 40 years of comfortable, arms-length Christianity.          

A couple of decades of spiritual compartmentalization have brought us to the point where our religious freedoms and values are clearly under attack by a widening coalition of left-wing politicians, complicit media, social media moguls and hordes of anonymous social media pundits.  Any half-way literate person can’t help but notice the rapid decline in Christian influence in our culture.

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You may recall that Obama opposed gay marriage when he took office.  It took about ten years to go from that to the point where transgenderism is being promoted at the federal level, rational thinking is ignored, and the rule of law is being supplanted by mob rule.  If these trends continue, the next ten years will find Christians persecuted in this country.

            Ten years ago, we may have thought, “How do I integrate my Christian faith with my day-to-day business practices?”  because we had a mild sense of obligation.  For the most part, it was a nice idea we thought about from time to time because we felt a bit of a sense of obligation. But, no real urgency, and we were content to build our businesses and careers and keep them separate from our involvement in the local religious institution.              

            Today we ask the question because we realize that if we don’t do something, we may not be able to practice our faith in the near future. If something doesn’t change, we will have been the last generation to openly practice Christianity.  Our children won’t have that luxury.

            Our motivation now is to insure a reasonably free existence for our children and grandchildren and the survival of the country.  The question is no longer an academic musing, but rather our knee-jerk reaction to the realization that we have lost the culture and may lose everything else if we don’t act.

            The mildly intrigued academic question of ten years ago has become the make-or break response to a world turning increasingly dark.

            So, how do we integrate our Christian faith with our day-to-day business practices?

            The answer isn’t simple... READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.