Integrating faith and business?

Question

What's your opinion on integrating one's personal faith (in my case Christian) and working in business world?

Answer 1

If it you and your choice to do so, great...that's how it should be. Being Christian doesn't stop at any time or place.
I do, however have a problem with companies "being there" for their employee's spiritual needs.
There is TOO GREAT a risk for abuse from the employers.
Imagine expecting confidentiality, and somehow it gets back to haunt you on the job. Remember who it is that signs the "minister's" paycheck.
This is a recent development, and it will be interesting to see how far companies will take it.

Answer 2

If you're a Christian (I am, as well), you'll read that there's an excellent example of this in Acts 2, where the early church did everything to help support one another.

I don't think there's anything wrong with expressing your faith and integrating it with your business. It's done all the time.

Sign I saw in a Christian Resort: "We honor God in all that we do here. We appreciate you not using his name in vain."

Like the answerer above says, you WILL limit your customer base. There are people who will refuse to do business with you because you mix the two. You'll have to decide if that's a consequence you're willing to live with.

Answer 3

It depends upon what you mean by 'integrating faith and business'. The way I always did it was to run my business by Christian principles of honesty, kindness, etc. and not giving sermons along with my services. Just doing it like Jesus would probably do it in today's world. Good luck.

Answer 4

This depends on your motive.
1. Your business is not doing well, and you feel using the name of Jesus in your business will move God to bless it.
2. Your business is doing great, and you desire to give God the praise and glory for blessing it.
if 1 then.. You may win a Christian customer base, however there is another hindrance in your life. Deal with that through faith and God will begin blessing your business. Sow money to reap money you know.
if 2 then.. Honor God through alms and gifts to the poor. Spread the wealth around you to the less fortunate ones you see on a daily basis. Remember, it's our work of love that we will stand before Jesus and answer. Without love you are nothing. The devil may be trying to steal half your business with this ploy. Be wise as a serpent but harmless as a dove.

Answer 5

There is no correlation between your faith and working in business. :Your faith is to believe in God and to allow one day to serve Him. You work because you have to eat otherwise, you cannot continue to sustain your life. This two do not contradict each other unless you are into some shady business and that's a big transgression against your being a Christian.

Answer 6

your faith or beliefs, they define who you are, you can't adjust them to make them fit in a business setting. Faith is the belief that God can do and will do anything to help you.. or simply that there is a God of omnipotent power. Working in the world requires faith everyday. To try to seperate what should be defining you from someone else who is just working in an office and doing business... it should be impossible.

Answer 7

You have to live in the world, but you don't have to live like the world. If something happens that affects you that's morally unacceptable, you have 2 options - confrontation or leaving. You'll have to judge which of the 2 is appropriate to the situation.

Answer 8

In business it is hard to bring to two together. In business ther is alot of control issues and changing thing that should not be changed or lying among others. but most important thing you need to find out is witch one means more to you, God or business. If its God then do your job the way God intended you to. If its business that means more to you than you have no question to ask.

Answer 9

You'll limit yourself, either by customer base if it's a small business, or by what companies you can work for. Larger companies find it inappropriate to evangelize at work. You could make a lot of people uncomfortable and they wouldn't want to work with you - or trust you with clients.

Answer 10

That depends on rather it is your business, or someone else's. In most larger environments it isn't appropriate to proselytize on the job. It is also up to the owner what type of front he wants the business to have.