Principle One: The workplace is the primary appointed place of ministry for those called to Enterprising Ministry leadership.
The Marketplace is the is field ripe for harvest, the church building is the seed store. We some times operate as if the workplace is the seed store and the church building is the field for harvest. We are the workers, the church leadership is delighted to be the equippers of workplace saints.
Principle Two: Enterprise without profit is like a local church without the gospel.
Even non-profit enterprises must generate more income than they spend to invest in stability and growth.
An enterprising ministry that spends more than it takes in looks and sounds good, but it is no more than a representation of a real enterprise, a fruitless fruit tree. It has no strength to stand in adversity, no passion to advance the kingdom. It has no real opportunity to support families or fund other kingdom work. It is facade, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Principle Three: The Workplace must be reclaimed as a place of salty light for believers to carry out their primary ministry, not a place of contamination for the
There is an unspoken belief among "old school" Christian business and clergy people that business is at least a place of compromise, and at worst a stronghold of the enemy, and that Christians called to business operate there only to reclaim the enemy's money so that it may be redeemed in "real" ministry outside of the marketplace. This is a tragic myth; the marketplace must be reclaimed as a place of salty light for believers to carry out their primary ministry.
Principle Four: The marketplace is a primary place to for relationships to develop between believers and those who will be believers.
Construct your work processes with Purpose Driven Design Principles, maximizing opportunities for believing workers to interact as believers with those around them that don't know Christ both inside and outside the Enterprise.
Principle Five: A Business owned or controlled by believers belongs to the Lord, and they are Stewards of the Enterprising Ministry.
No believer owns anything. The enterprising business is of God, by God, and for God. The owners are Stewards with a burden and responsibility similar to the ones Pastors and Elders hold for a church.
Principle Six: A godly enterprise may be mundane and simple, but it is sin for a Steward to operate an enterprise that advances the enemy's kingdom.
No business services or products that enslave people, draws people away from Christ or facilitates the enemy's agenda.
Principle Seven: believer in enterprise operates under the same standards of ethics and behavior as the rest of the body of Christ.
As ambassadors for Christ in a non-Christian world, as standard bearers in a Kingdom Business, you may not keep two set of behavioral books.
Principle Eight: Stewards of Enterprising Ministry are by definition equipped by God to be contributors toward other ministry.
As stewards of financial, job, and business resources and assets, as well as opportunities, you have a responsibility to listen to petitions and requests, submit them to to the Lord in prayer, and respond as directed by the Lord.
Principle Nine: At the End of the day, Enterprising Ministry, business, is about People that matter to God. How you treat your employees, suppliers, and customers is carried to God by Christ as worship, an aroma, a perfume..
Principle Ten: Enterprising Ministry Stewards are teachers, responsible to develop the next generation of Kingdom Entrepreneurs.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Ten Principles For Enterprising Ministry Leadership
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