To whom is given: Business for the common good
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses the integration of faith and work, emphasizing the importance of glorifying God in all aspects of life, including business and ministry. It highlights the potential for business to change culture and the role of entrepreneurship in shaping society's values. Personal stories illustrate the challenges and rewards of pursuing faith-based vocations, advocating for excellence and integrity in daily work to create a transformative impact.
Takeaways
- 🌟 The script emphasizes the importance of recognizing that one can glorify God through various vocations, not just in traditional ministry roles, but also in the business world.
- 💼 It discusses the need to overcome the mindset that only certain 'Christian-oriented' work is valuable and to honor all types of work as potentially fulfilling God's purposes.
- 📚 The speaker suggests that there is a need for education to help people understand God's purposes and to challenge the misconception that work outside of the church is less significant.
- 🔑 The script highlights examples of biblical figures who were vocational leaders, indicating that ministry and work are not mutually exclusive but can be integrated aspects of one's life.
- 🛠️ It encourages a shift away from categorizing people strictly as 'business people' or 'ministry people' and instead focusing on the causes and people God puts in front of us.
- 🚀 The speaker shares personal experiences of being entrepreneurial and how a broader vision for business as a way to live out faith was formed through various life experiences.
- 🌱 The idea that God calls us to things we might not choose for ourselves is presented, suggesting that our vocational paths may not always align with our initial plans or preferences.
- 🛤️ The script touches on the concept that our past experiences, even those we didn't anticipate, contribute to our current roles and can be part of a larger, transformative journey.
- 🏗️ It discusses the role of business in creating culture and how businesses can be a catalyst for positive societal change by embodying and promoting virtuous values.
- 🤝 The importance of love as a guiding principle in business is underscored, with the notion that faith should result in love for all people, including coworkers and customers.
- 🌱 The script concludes by highlighting the potential for business to be a vehicle for cultural change, with entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping not only individual lives but also broader societal norms.
Q & A
What is the main challenge discussed in the script regarding young people's perception of ministry and business?
-The script discusses the challenge of changing the perception that ministry is the only way to glorify God, and that business can be equally sacred and a valid path for fulfilling one's calling.
How does the script suggest the church could better honor work done outside of traditional ministry roles?
-The script suggests that the church could honor such work by recognizing and celebrating the achievements in business and other fields as much as it does for traditionally Christian-oriented work.
What is the role of education in changing people's understanding of God's purposes according to the script?
-Education is seen as a key factor in correcting misconceptions about God's purposes and helping people understand that their work in the world matters, thus encouraging a broader view of ministry.
How does the script relate the historical figures from the Bible to modern vocational roles?
-The script points out that many biblical figures, such as Paul, Peter, James, and Moses, had vocational roles like tent makers, fishermen, shepherds, and agricultural workers, indicating that day jobs were part of their ministry.
What does the script suggest about the relationship between personal growth and comfort?
-The script suggests that personal growth and development rarely occur in places of comfort, and that stepping out of comfort zones, through adventure, can lead to the most worthwhile experiences.
How does the speaker in the script describe their journey from seminary to business?
-The speaker describes a journey that began with a desire to be full-time in ministry, leading to seminary, but then took a turn towards business when an opportunity arose to run an outdoor gear company, which aligned with their passions for business, social entrepreneurship, and the outdoors.
What is the significance of the speaker's experience in education and business in their new role at the outdoor gear company?
-The speaker's background in education and business was seen as valuable in their new role, as it allowed them to bring a unique perspective and skill set to the mission of the company, which is to provide life-changing outdoor experiences.
What does the script suggest about the importance of being open to God's calling in various life stages?
-The script suggests that being open to God's calling is important at any stage of life, and that one's vocational path may change, with different roles such as pastoral ministry and business ministry being valid at different times.
How does the script connect the concept of love to the operation of a business?
-The script connects love to business by emphasizing the importance of caring for employees, treating them with dignity, and creating opportunities for them to grow and develop, which reflects the love of Christ.
What is the script's perspective on the role of business in shaping culture?
-The script posits that business is a significant creator of culture, as it anticipates and meets the needs and desires of society, and through its products, goods, and services, it can introduce virtue-oriented brands that reshape people's mindsets and aspirations.
How does the script view the importance of daily faithfulness in business or ministry?
-The script views daily faithfulness as crucial, emphasizing that while not every day will be a highlight, consistency in doing good work and fulfilling responsibilities is essential for achieving larger goals and experiencing transformative moments.
Outlines
🌟 Glorifying God in Various Professions
The speaker emphasizes the misconception that glorifying God is limited to traditional ministry roles. They argue that God can be honored equally in the marketplace, such as in business, as in the church. The speaker encourages the church to recognize and honor all forms of work, challenging the notion that only certain Christian-oriented jobs are valuable. They also discuss the importance of understanding God's purposes and how historical biblical figures were vocational leaders, showing that ministry and work are not mutually exclusive.
🛠️ Embracing Life's Unexpected Vocational Paths
This paragraph discusses the idea that God may call individuals to roles they wouldn't have chosen for themselves, dispelling the myth of a perfectly planned life. The speaker reflects on their own varied career experiences and how they were led to unexpected opportunities, such as running an outdoor gear company. They highlight the importance of being open to God's doors and embracing different seasons of life with different vocations, rather than being rigidly fixed on a single path.
🏗️ The Impact of Business on Culture and Society
The speaker explores the role of business in shaping culture, asserting that businesses create the context in which people live by anticipating needs and desires, and offering products and services that reflect these. They argue that when businesses work together with a shared vision, societies flourish. The speaker also discusses the importance of businesses being virtue-oriented and contributing positively to society's values and desires.
🌳 Adventure as a Catalyst for Personal Growth
The speaker discusses the role of adventure in personal development, suggesting that it can foster humility, curiosity, and wonder. They describe an outdoor adventure brand's mission to equip and inspire people for life-changing experiences through high-quality outdoor products. The brand aims to be more than just a product provider, but also an influencer that encourages a deeper experience of community, love, and adventure.
🛠️ The Transformative Power of Business in Society
The speaker shares personal stories of individuals who have been given opportunities through businesses that have changed their lives, such as a pre-apprenticeship program for individuals with criminal backgrounds. They emphasize the importance of love and grace in business, and how these values can lead to positive cultural change. The speaker also reflects on the importance of connecting faith with action in the business world.
🌟 Integrating Faith and Work for Cultural Impact
The final paragraph focuses on the integration of faith and work, with the speaker discussing how their faith influences their approach to business and their interactions with employees and the community. They highlight the importance of using business as a means to glorify God and make a positive impact on society, emphasizing the potential of business to be a vehicle for lasting change in the world.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Ministry
💡Marketplace
💡Vocational Path
💡Adventure
💡Entrepreneurship
💡Cultural Change
💡Grace
💡Justice
💡Transformation
💡Love
💡Influence
Highlights
The discussion emphasizes the importance of glorifying God in all aspects of life, including business and the marketplace, not just within traditional ministry roles.
The need to overcome the misconception that only certain 'Christian-oriented' work can glorify God, suggesting that all work can be a form of ministry.
The idea that the church should honor all types of work, not just traditionally religious vocations, to counteract the societal bias towards certain careers.
The importance of educating people about God's purposes and correcting misconceptions about the significance of work outside of religious contexts.
The historical examples of biblical figures who were vocational leaders, such as Paul as a tentmaker and Peter as a fisherman, to illustrate that religious figures also had day jobs.
The argument that God puts things on our hearts and asks us to pursue them, regardless of whether they fit into traditional categories of business or ministry.
The notion that comfort can inhibit personal growth and that embracing adventure can lead to more fulfilling experiences and personal development.
The speaker's personal journey from considering business and ministry as diverging paths to recognizing their potential for integration and mutual enhancement.
The transformative impact of the speaker's time in Seminary, which reshaped their theology and reignited a passion for entrepreneurship as a form of ministry.
The concept that God calls individuals to roles they might not choose for themselves, challenging the idea of a perfect Christian path.
The belief that being open to the doors God opens, regardless of the structure, is essential, as life involves different seasons and vocations.
The discussion on the role of business in shaping culture, suggesting that businesses create the context in which people live and express faith.
The idea that businesses can be catalysts for cultural change by introducing virtue-oriented brands that reshape societal desires and identities.
The story of a business owner who found success and fulfillment in combining their passion for business with their Christian faith, emphasizing the importance of daily faithfulness in all work.
The emphasis on the importance of love in business practices, suggesting that love should be a guiding principle in all interactions within a company.
The concept of using business as a platform for social change, by creating opportunities for those who may not have the same blessings, such as through apprenticeship programs.
The personal story of a formerly incarcerated individual who found redemption and a future through a company that believed in them and provided opportunities.
The overarching theme that faith and business are not separate entities but can be integrated to create a powerful impact on society and individuals' lives.
Transcripts
speeding yes sir
Steve
John all right subjects you guys ready
I'm ready to go just count us
down you ready go
ahead so if you are a young person
saying I feel called to go into Ministry
because I want to change culture how
would you just maybe delete the word uh
Ministry and replace it with business it
seems to me one of the obstacles we need
to overcome is to prove to people that
you can glorify God just as much in the
marketplace as you can um in in the
church or on the for Mission field so I
think that as a church we could do a lot
more in honoring in some way that kind
of work you get a lot of gold stars for
certain kinds of very Christian oriented
work and you don't get any gold stars
for the other so I think that's one but
I also think um it just helping um
educate people to understand what God's
purposes are they've just been wrongly
educated to a large degree um I it's
it's
Brokenness that has caused people to
think their work out there in the world
doesn't matter yeah we have to overcome
that sometimes we read the text and we
forget that these uh great biblical
figures
were also vocational leaders as well you
know again going back to Paul being
being a Tent Maker looking at Peter and
James and their Fisherman's work looking
at Moses as a shepherd and the
agricultural work that he did you know
all of Jesus even as as a carpenter
working with his hands I think sometimes
we look at them as their Ministry and
public worship as being their primary
occupation but they did day jobs so for
me I think we have some real Rich
history both in scripture and church
history for this I think at the end of
the day uh God puts things on our hearts
he puts people in front of us and he
asks us to pursue those things and I
think sometimes we get that mixed up in
well what bucket do I sit in am I a
business person or am I a Ministry
person or do I do this nonprofit thing
and so I I think uh if we can throw
those things out and say there's there's
causes that we care about there's people
in front of us let me go after those
things and I'll assemble the pieces
around what God's put in front of me I
think that's a better vocational
path I think that we so often times find
ourselves in routines and that allows
Comfort to set in and uh Comfort I think
is rarely a place where we find personal
growth and development so I think
Adventure is a catalyst uh to shake
things up it's it's in some ways the
antithesis of comfort it um in the end
it proves to be the most worthwhile
experience and when you're sitting
around telling great stories so many of
those tend to happen
outside I've always been entrepreneurial
I've always had this love for business
and and what business could be and also
love for the Lord and for Ministry and
growing up I saw those as two diverging
paths I I really kind of bought into
this idea there's this sacred versus
second path and if I really want to uh
pursue my faith and and love Jesus uh
that I needed to sell everything and be
full-time in Ministry and so we decided
to sell everything um go to Seminary and
like I'm not even going to look back at
the secular
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path some people like to think of c as a
very linear path I think often times
when we look back we see that our past
are speckled with different experiences
that would have never anticipated to
bring us to where we are today so I've
had quite a varied past decade of career
experiences that I would categorize as
business design and
education ended up meeting an investor
that after talking to him for 2 hours
over coffee asked if I knew anyone that
wanted to help run an outdoor gear
company after thought and prayer I was
like let's do this so drove out to
Austin got here on a Tuesday started at
kamik on a Wednesday and that that was a
little over 18 months
ago Seminary was an incredibly formative
experience that reshaped my theology God
really started rekindling a passion for
entrepreneurship and business and and
then giving me broader vision for how
might business be a way to live out my
faith in in a really incredible way and
then have transformative impact on a
broader scale and so it's just this
merging of my passion for business
social entrepreneurship and then the
outdoors all in that summer that cic
came to
be I wouldn't have used those words
necessarily but life-changing Adventure
through outdoor experiences is something
that really resonated with me from my
background in education and meeting Greg
and seeing the opportunity to come
pursue that mission through business and
bring to bear my experience in business
and education was really compelling to
me and excited me
I do believe that God calls us to stuff
that we wouldn't
choose and so it is a myth to say you
know to really be a good Christian is to
get it all in that perfect little thing
and there are many things I know God
called me to that were miserable they
were so hard they were so out of my
sweet spot and only in retrospect can I
see how he's used it yeah so I think
it's not an easy answer yeah and if I
could just build on that I think the
idea that we could plan our steps to the
thing that is right is also a myth right
I I would have never put myself in the
seat that I'm in 10 years ago um but I'm
very grateful for it now and I feel like
it's a joy to do it uh but there was no
you know calculus of well am I going to
do this and how will this happen and
will that yeah so I think I think having
an openness too to the doors that God
does open uh regardless of the structure
that looks like we go through different
seasons of life with different vocations
uh it's not a crazy idea to to think
that you could be in Ministry pastorally
and then in Ministry in the marketplace
at different times in your life and so I
think we should embrace those things um
but to your point have a very uh a very
even and open hand to
them engineering is something that I
found out existed a fairly early age and
I thought that's what I'm going to
do somewhere in my teens um I found out
about this place called MIT and it was
really hard to get into and it just
seemed like nerd Nirvana and I thought
that is where I absolutely had to find
myself I had the opportunity to study in
Paris and that expose me to French
pastry and it's there that I really
became en armored by the Beauty and the
craft of French ptic you know as a
scientist I'm used to trial and error
I'm used to you know taking an
experiment and doing it 50 times to make
it right so this idea of of doing
something and failing at it and and
doing it over and over and over again
and and and very rigorously perfecting
it is like innate to
me now throughout my time in California
and at Hopkins is when my husband and I
started doing a lot of entertaining we
sort of found that we really loved it we
would do a lot of large parties he would
do you know the meats I would do sides
desserts appetizers that's way I taught
myself how to make maaha um you know I
taught myself various French techniques
and it was during my postdoc uh at the
NIH that I had the bright idea um I can
do two careers why don't I open a shop
while doing my post
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I live here on the hill on Capital Hill
in DC a spot opened up just um a few
blocks and everything seemed to to gel
and that was um kind of the um what led
to the opening of The Sweet Lobby about
5 and 1/2 years
ago shortly after we won um Cupcake Wars
we found ourselves really growing in
popularity not only on the retail side
but also on the wholesale side
we found ourselves needing additional
space so there in um enters uh in Suk
and so Suk is back of house our
wholesale macaron production as well as
our um Cafe pastry production um and
then our front of house is our globally
inspired market and uh Bakery and Cafe
space as a a small business owner I kind
of had to decide where to place most of
my energies a lot of people ask me w so
you in bi medical engineering you
developing like Vision saving technology
that seems so honorable and so needed
and sort of how do you decide then to go
into baking you
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know as human beings we're created with
one main purpose and that is to glorify
God and to do that in whatever sphere we
might be in
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for me I think um Colossians you 3:23
really uh came to mind and that's you
know whatever you do do heartedly is for
the Lord rather than for man knowing
that from the Lord you will receive an
inheritance for is Christ the lord whom
you serve so this idea of whatever I was
doing that I should be doing it heartily
and for the
Lord I'm thinking of Ephesians 4 which
in which Paul says some are called to to
be pastors some are called to be
evangelists some are called to be
teachers but their job is to build up
the ministry and it seems to me clear
that what Paul is saying is that the
actual Ministry of the church are the
Ley and they're the ones that are
actually doing the work outside uh the
the doors of the church yeah well uh I
mean I think it it by its very nature we
are going out and creating the context
that people live in and so we are
creating expressions of faith
and so each of us uh wherever we go
whatever we're doing uh have to
ultimately say I'm I'm learning about
this this this Orthodoxy that I have
this doctrinal thought and then I have
to go put it into my hands which is
orthopraxy and so I think that
connection of theology to action is the
expression of the lady that you're
talking about and uh if we divide those
two things and we're just content with
what's in our head I don't actually
think that's a full expression of faith
and I think the church needs to
encourage people to do that application
on a regular basis and uh encourage the
exploration of what that looks
like many of us had worked together in
different capacities but when kind of
pulled us together and talked about hey
we're all passionate about being
excellent what we do about process about
people we can we can do this thing um
and it kind of started there we really
focused on the quality and really wanted
something better for our clients they
were paying a lot of money not getting
the quality and then we also knew the
knew the problems that the employees
were having which is construction Market
can be a rough rough trade we decided
hey we can do this we can do this better
we can provide the quality we can
provide a good place for the employees
to learn and uh develop new skills we
work throughout Colorado and Wyoming and
we service different vertical markets
ranging from small service projects up
to large construction
projects we started in a bad economy uh
we started with no local relationships I
mean it was a big challenge we had to do
Grassroots efforts to get our name out
there and our quality and our service
and who we were and 15 years later you
know we've been really blessed and
grateful and amazing people and amazing
projects that we've worked
on for us it's kind of evolved over time
figuring out what is our culture going
to be who are we going to be we really
view that you know we want people to do
well here we want them to retire well uh
we want them to feel like they're a part
of something bigger and so setting that
vision and what are we do in the next 5
years what's our role or responsibility
in the community how are we serving how
are we giving back how do you do
something bigger than build a
building church is the conscience of
culture we make sure that culture
understands its higher moral calling but
business is the creator of culture they
look at market conditions and they
assess needs and desires and wants and
in an anticipatory way they create
products goods and services that
actually bring to life what's in our
hearts and our imaginations and if they
work together in complimentary ways like
that then our societies flourish even if
it's one of 20 brands that someone
engages with on a weekly basis it's
important uh for it to be a different
vision and uh I think there's
opportunities for us to introduce brands
that are very virtue oriented
to reshape people's uh mindsets about
what their life could look like and we
encourage our entrepreneurs in this way
they're building Society they're
building out the things that society
says we should desire what what their
identity should be what they should
desire what the good life looks like all
these these really large philosophical
questions that businesses are trying to
answer on a daily
basis Kim's an outdoor adventure brand
uh purposed to equip and inspire people
people for the adventure of changing
lives we do that through high quality
outdoor products such as camping
hammocks sleeping bags and new product
lines uh to come our goal is to design
gear that's really simple and intuitive
to use that can be used in your backyard
even in your house and then go with you
on your most epic Adventures so gear
that's simple but also really
technically
Innovative we want to invite people into
a fullness of life and share a story
that uh equips and encourages people to
to love others well and that has to
start here that has to start within the
walls of this
office we want to use Adventure very
strategically to help produce something
uh greater in people um so we hope that
Adventure produces humility uh curiosity
and wonder we're not just like an
endpoint for the consumer for the
customer but we're more of an outpost
that is equipping and inspiring and then
moving them on we think that the
products we're creating are catalysts
for creating that experience of a Fuller
and Deeper Life product is is not the
end for us the product is the very
beginning of the cycle that kind of
pushes us all the way through being able
to you know tell the story to the
customers uh both of the retail space
and our customers um and also kind of
inspire them through that of what our
give is and and how we're giving back to
give people Adventure
in the outdoor space it's a very social
space people that are wanting to connect
with a deeper meaning and purpose and so
we actually have something to share as
to why we believe there is deeper
meaning and purpose and we want to move
people beyond the brand and Beyond the
physical products and into this deeper
experience of Adventure community and
love and ultimately you know my hope is
that in those catalystic events they
they would find uh the Lord
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so some of the Fool's go that we we've
sold to Millennials is this thought that
everybody's going to change the world
and that's a good concept unless it
leads to us only getting excited about
the big things and I think it is
important that we highlight that every
day in business or in pastoral Ministry
is not going to be a highlight real it
is us being faithful to the daily task
of doing good work and making sure that
we are mindful of the responsibilities
and duties that are set before us and as
we do that these great explosive moments
come they they come as a result of us
being faithful we have a tendency to
overlook the importance of dropping your
kids off at school every day or being
faithful in paying your taxes or showing
up to work on time so I think that we
have to get a vision for God being
glorified in the small things which
ultimately lead to big
things so do you want to set up the
experiment that we did the other day
yeah do you remember how to do it this
one okay what else do we
need
oh and they did fall down
a t
being a business owner you certainly
work all the time but you do get to set
your own hour somewhat I'll have a
couple hours off in the morning if my to
take my child to school I think that
flexibility was was um was
attractive as a Believer as a Christian
as a you know follower of Christ that
has to be my faith it's what kind of
governs my priorities It's tricky
because it's far easier said than than
done because we're so driven in this
life by what is visible what's easily
around us we seldom naturally consider
what Christ would have us
do if you would ask what sort of the
main challenges of of running a business
I think the first thing would just be
managing staff well and this is really
in the pursuit of perfection right I
mean these are are they're very good
they look very nice but I I really think
that we can do
way better I think we can do
better as a Christian there's um a few
considerations that you have that
perhaps um someone who's not a Christian
would would not have I think the concept
of um Grace you know is something that
as a as a Christian you you understand
so for me that's been a huge part of how
I
manage I started to to consider what a
business really meant it meant um a
community where you can provide
employment um for folks you have the
opportunity to do something else that I
love was just to Mentor um young people
I think when I look back at people who
have been with us for you know some of
them you know 3 four years it's just
amazing to see that transformation
through um through mentorship and
through providing opportunities and so I
think it's important to think through
bringing glory to God and how best you
can do that whether it's pursuing
Ministry or pursuing another
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career there is something about
employment that lifts the countenance up
and makes someone feel like they're
fully in in God's image and that is
something that a business can do
entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
carrying enough about the AO day in
people to build businesses that
eventually build great cities you know
Jesus uh criticizes the Pharisees in
Luke 11 verse 42 where he says you know
you tithe of your mint and your cumin
and your spices but you forgot Justice
and the love of God you should have done
those other things but not forgotten
those virtues the weightier things right
and I think in business uh if he was
sitting around this table he would say
you launch great businesses you make
wonderful profit profit and that's all
wonderful and it's great but don't
forget Justice don't forget to share
your Social Capital uh with others and
create opportunities for others who may
not have the same blessing that you
have being in the electrical trade you
have four years to be in the field of on
the job training to become a journeyman
electrician and with that we support a
four-year apprenticeship
program we're always hiring people to
come into our program and we like to
bring people in that are completely
green don't know the trade so we can
train them in our
process with that we were starting to
donate spend time with different
charities we realized that they had some
candidates that were coming out of their
program looking for jobs and so that's
where we decided Let's test this out and
uh we started this pre-apprenticeship
program so the guys come to us from some
of the varied programs not only they
learn everything they're kind of putting
their lives together too they learn
their tools they learn learn what what
it takes to go out on the job site and
then when we send them out they're ready
to go they're ready to be a part of
Wayfield it's really been just giving
these guys just an opportunity that you
you care for them and you you you say
guys I got you 40 hours I got your
health insurance and um they've never
had that opportunity before so it's it's
just
rewarding life has its challenges and
things kind of change and uh ended up uh
getting a felony and uh it's kind of
hard getting a job as a felon as an
addict um it's hard to to get back into
society and reintegrate to get with a
good company it's tough road I bumped my
head quite a few times uh got some drug
charges uh some DUI and um this last DUI
I got was kind of a Make It or Break It
For Me honestly I don't think that i'
I'd be here with such a a great future
ahead of me without W I just bought a
house literally a month ago um he just
paid off my vehicle um you know things
are things are looking very
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positive just they're ready to make a
change in their life you see that switch
where hey I've made some bad decisions
in the past but this company Believes In
Me and they're giving me a future and
they're investing in me when a lot of
people wouldn't hire me before um it's
kind of this you see it
click we've got you 300 employees right
now and if you equate that out and
there's you know 600 people that were
were affecting and were affecting
families I think the one word that sort
of has continues to resonate with me as
you sort through that is the word love
if somehow our faith doesn't result in
love then we're not connecting the dots
so that love could be for the coworker
it could be for the person that's going
to receive the product that we're making
um often it's very mundane it's often
unlikable people that um in our business
work in particular we're still called to
love so grappling with all right how
does my heart change how is what I know
about the truth of Christ dying on the
cross and being raised again from the
dead Chang my ability to love in the
business I'm in um I think we've got to
wrestle with that question that's go
that's that's such a big Point uh I
think most of the things we talk about
in the realm of cultural change uh are
actually not motivated out of love
they're motivated out of hostility or
discomfort or wanting things to be more
like we want them to be instead of
saying we we wish that this this context
of life was was easier or better we talk
about the entrepreneur in their role in
shaping culture and they're starting uh
as as equivalently a mustard seed with
this idea that most people say won't
work it grows it starts to shape the
organizations it starts to shape the
employees who's around them and then as
those employees go about doing their
work with that organization's mission
and vision that starts to shape the
stakeholders around them it shapes the
vendors that they work with shapes the
places they buy ads it shapes the supply
chain that they work with and then as
those uh different things come to life
through stakeholders we think industry
best practices start to change right
people engage with companies in
different ways they have different Norms
uh and then as those Norms go as those
Industries change that's where I think
the culture actually starts to take on a
different
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form I love that uh in my work I'm I'm
not you know just in this in this bubble
of faith of you interacting with all
these other people that are that believe
the same thing that I do or see the
world the same way that I do I think
that um being in in the business
environment just gives phenomenal
opportunity to connect with a a diverse
group of people um in ways that maybe an
NGO or a faith-based organization
wouldn't be able to
have there is work to be done in in all
places in our culture and insy and we
can have a positive impact wherever we
are and that regardless of the work that
you're in like you're always being
prepared and shaped for that next
season my perspective as a as a Believer
who uh is deeply passionate about
Ministry and thinking thinking about how
Ministry is integrated into my work I
see them not as two separate things I
see them as all as all one I think
business today is the greatest vehicle
for uh lasting change in the world
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thinking through can you bring glory to
God and in in in what you do and then
you know again back to I think
Colossians 3:23 is there something that
I can do heartily you know working
working for the Lord um you know rather
than for man or even rather than myself
I have to check my ego every day um as I
think through how am I am I really
working to glorify myself or is this
really to bring glory to
God view that the workplace everybody
spends time there right so many hours a
week and so how can you make a
difference by um being consistent and
showing people just in your actions that
you care and can be present with your
time um have a conversation with them um
you know cuz I think when you build
relationship then that's when people
trust you and you can talk a little bit
more about your faith what you believe
in and with all the connections that we
have um focusing on giving back and
serving and connecting with Community
groups and charities it takes it to this
other level so we're affecting families
we're affecting Community groups and it
starts to build on each other and it's
uh it's a beautiful
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thing you know God gives you different
giftings and if you have that business
gifting and you can Excel within
business you can capture a big
audience being in that position where
you can have an area of influence um and
affect people positively is really
powerful oh
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oh
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