BIZNISTRY: Transforming Lives through Enterprise

“A cord of three strands is not easily broken.” So Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:12. In the same way, marketplace and ministry are strongest when they are intertwined with each other, and around God.

Biznistry can also help the local church be a better steward of the resources it already has. In Jesus’ Parable of the Talents, the servant who safely hid the money entrusted to him and returned it later was called wicked, lazy and worthless.1 The master expected his servants to steward his money shrewdly, putting it to work to achieve the maximum

Paul tells the Ephesian believers, “You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak.”8 Paul is a living example that it’s possible, even admirable, to make tents and preach the Word, to blend business and mi

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. – D. Elton Trueblood

Church members must be given direction, encouragement, and permission to use all their gifts and talents in God’s service. Biznistry provides new opportunities to do just that.

He didn’t sit in the temple and say “come and see”; He modeled an active “go and be.” Consider his example of integrating faith and work: • Of Jesus’ 132 public appearances in the New Testament, 122 were in the marketplace. • Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. • Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he we

Ethics for a Christian mean obedience to God—whether at home, at church, or in the work world.

contemporary Christianity views the marketplace as little more than a venue for generating ministry funds for the local church. This is a tragedy that has separated most of the Christian community from most of the ministry opportunity! When Jesus commands, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel,” he makes no exception for the workplace. Accor

God makes it clear that Christians in the work world must go beyond dealing fairly in the marketplace and not cheating on our taxes. We are to also obey his command to “Love your neighbor as yourself” by focusing on the spiritual and physical needs of others. This is a call to Christians in the work world to make a difference rather than just a dol