BIZNISTRY: Transforming Lives through Enterprise

Over the years Chuck Proudfit has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars from Skillsource profits for ministry work ranging from micro-enterprises to job retraining to At Work On Purpose, the work life ministry he founded.

God places many of his own in companies that don’t include him in their mission statement, making them points of light in an otherwise dark place.

In God’s economy, there is no sacred vs. secular; there is only sacred vs. sinful. Everything in heaven and earth belongs to God, and we either use the resources of the material world to glorify him or to sin against him. This is true of our work just as it is every part of our life.

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.

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

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

Yet scripture makes it clear that focusing on ourselves while others suffer incurs God’s wrath. The biblical explanation of Sodom’s destruction is a great illustration of this. If you ask Christians why Sodom was destroyed, most will say it was because of the city’s sexual perversion. But that is a one-sided view of what Scripture teaches. Ezekiel

It is no coincidence that the Parable of the Talents is followed in Scripture by the metaphor of the Sheep and the Goats. Jesus teaches us that resources aren’t to be buried, but rather to be invested for a return. Then he shows us the purpose for this investment: we are to reach beyond ourselves to help those in desperate need. The physical act of

Biznistry gives the body of Christ a way to extend beyond the boundaries of the general giving to further fund existing missions, or to fund new ministry opportunities.