3 Essential Paths to Growing a Successful Christian Business

by Dave Kahle

The world is full of advice for businesspeople.  If you are a Christian, the challenge is to sort it out – to discard the superficial and worldly while grabbing onto that which will make a difference.

           I’ve been a Christian and a consultant/author/speaker for over 30 years. In that time, God arranged for me to have worked with over 500 different organizations.  Regardless of the size, the age, the type of industry or the location, successful Christian businesses have somethings in common. These three initiatives are essential for a Christian business to reach it’s potential.

           First, note that these are paths to pursue.   Each of these is a commitment to a lifetime of growth. They are not events for which you can check the box and then move onto something else.  They are paths on which to journey, continuously evolving and developing.   These three paths will keep you focused on the things that are essential to success.

1.  Adopt the right mindset 

Your mindset colors everything you think and everything you do.  It’s the basic framework through which you view the world, and it influences every decision you’ll make.

           Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Christian businesspeople have been misdirected into an erroneous mindset.

           The most common mindset is this: “Christianity is about what I do on Sundays at church.  What I do during the week in my business or career has nothing to do with being a Christian.”  This compartmentalization of Christianity and business is one of Satan’s greatest lies.  When people accept that lie and embrace that mindset, they take themselves out of the great struggle between good and evil, and effectively seat themselves on the bench. 

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           As a result, millions of people, across time and geography, have never been exposed to the power of the love of God through interaction with a committed Christ-follower on the job.  And the Christian businessperson who embraces that erroneous mindset spends his/her life focused on the wrong things – effectively living a life of less consequence than God had in mind.     

           There is a better mindset.  One which is in sync with God’s word and his plan: “My work and my business is my ministry.  God has put me in this position to shed his light into the lives of the people whom I, and my organization, touches. “

           Colossians 3:17

            And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord     Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

           When you embed that set of beliefs into your heart and mind, you prepare fertile soil out of which will spring all sorts of blessings for yourself and others.  It will help you sort through the noise around you; and it will be a measuring rod by which to evaluate the people, ideas and decisions you’ll confront.

           As I researched the scriptures while I was writing  The Good Book on Business, I was struck with  the role that business plays in God’s work with mankind, and the role it plays in His relationships with us. Before Eve was created, before scripture, before prophets, before church, before pastors, God created work and indicated that he would use it as his first venue through which to create a relationship with.... CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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