A business plan is essential, but it cannot predict changes and challenges that lie ahead. SSE Director Pete West tells new entrepreneurs to “expect seven problems. You won’t know what they are until you start. If you expect difficulty, it will be easier to deal with it when it comes. You can’t be discouraged by problems; you have to get through

Biznistries reinvest profits for the common good, rather than hoard profits for a select few. The parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30 helps us to realize that all that we have is given to us by God and all of it should be used to glorify him.

The corporate world is starving for the influence of Christians who bring their faith—including integrity, honesty, and truth—to the marketplace.

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.

When Life Learning Center, a ministry that provides help to those seeking jobs, moved into the building, they asked if Gary might be able to provide some work for an ex-felon who had just been released from jail. God was opening a door to ministry, and Gary took his first step through that door by hiring the man to help with the ReUse Center he was

Marketplace and ministry can be complementary rather than contradictory.

There is nothing “secular” about work in the Bible. The Hebrew verb avad is used in the Old Testament for both “work” and “worship.” It is related to our word vocation, which even today is defined first in the Oxford English Dictionary as “the action on the part of God, calling a person to exercise some special function, especially for a spiritual

“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.

Chuck Proudfit,