“God did not call me to be a minister or a missionary; He called me to be a businessman – and I see no difference.”
(Michael Cardone of Cardone Industries)
I have recently been contracted to write a couple of courses for a Christian college in Canada. One of the courses is to be entitled “Theology of Business.” I have taught workshops on this subject by spending an hour or two, but a 36-hour college credited course is something different, especially when I am not an expert on the subject. I have been reading and studying the scriptures as well as what learned men and women have to say on the subject.
For many people ‘theology’ and ‘business’ are compartmentalized into two segments: secular and sacred with very little or no connectivity to each other. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Ken Eldred, asserts that the real goal of business is to serve people to the glory of God. Business serves people by creating wealth (Deut. 8:18) and God who is the creator of all things gives mankind the ability to do so. Theology and business are inherently linked from the Cultural Mandate in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 (where God gave Adam a job to do) until today.
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