What Does It Mean To Be a “Christian Business?”
What distinguishes a Christian business from a Non-Christian business?
What differentiates a Christian business person from a Non-Christian business person?
Have you ever thought about this.
Are these the distinguishing marks of a Christian business or Christian business person?
- Honesty in all they do
- Provides quality products and services at a fair price
- Active in making the community better
- Supports local schools
- Supports Christian non-profits
- Active in a church
- Takes care of their employees
- Treat their customers and prospects with respect and appreciate their patronage
- Stand behind their products and services. Willing to do whatever they can to make it right if there is a problem
- Respect and appreciate their vendors and their employees
- Respect their competition and do not bad-mouth them to others
- But … Don’t Non-Christian businesses and business people do all these?
And don’t some self-identified Christian businesses and business people fail to do these?
{Yes, there are active Non-Christians in churches and supporting Christian non-profits}
Maybe what differentiates between the Christian and Non-Christian is they put “Christian Owned” on their signage, marketing materials, vehicles, and business cards. Or maybe they put a Cross or a Fish on those things instead.
What distinguishes a Christian business or business person from a Non-Christian is one thing.
What’s their Primary Function: Is their primary focus about Making Disciples of Jesus.
Making Disciples of Jesus is your primary role as a Christian. Assigned to you by your Savior.
Making Disciple of Jesus is your primary role as a Christian business. Assigned to you by your Savior.
The position you have. The business you have. The relationships you have as a result of your position or business are given to you by God. To steward for the purpose of making His Name Great and His Salvation known among all groups of people in the world.
Your business, your job are not separate from your primary role assigned to you by Jesus.
If there are no Christian businesses and no Christian business people, there will still be businesses and business people who do all the things listed above.
But if the Christian business neglects its responsibility to use the business as a vehicle for Making Disciples, there are no Non-Christian businesses that will pick up the slack.
If a Christian business person neglects their responsibility to use their position as a vehicle for Making Disciples, there are no Non-Christian business people that will pick up the slack.
It is only Christian businesses that can use the business platform to be Making Disciples of Jesus.
It is only the Christian business people that can use the business platform to be Making Disciples of Jesus.
God has given you, Christian business owner and Christian business person, the stewardship of the His business, all the relationships you have through business, and all the people you encounter through business for the purpose of Making Disciples of Jesus — which is your primary responsibility while on this earth.
And He expects you to do your job with what He’s entrusted to you.
What makes your business a Christian Business is that every person who encounters your business will be loved and cared for as you …
- Listening to their stories without judgement
- Pray with them and for them
- Serve them in practical ways
- Attempt to start spiritual conversations with them
- Share Your Story about what God has done for you
- Share God’s Story about what He has done for everyone
- Ask them if they would like to get together and read the Bible to see what God shows both of you
- Start groups that meet together to read the Bible and see what God shows you as a group
- Teach them how to replicate what you’re doing
- Develop leaders who develop other leaders.
- This is done with employees, prospects, customers, vendors, competitors, and anyone else you encounter through your business activities.
If a business or a business person is referring to themself as a Christian Business (or Christian business person) but isn’t about the work of Making Disciples of Jesus through their business activities … Then, it seems to me, they are just using Jesus as a marketing tool.
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