Is your business a “for-profit ministry”?
Recently, I heard a unique term for a business where the leader is a Christ follower and seeks to serve others with it, in Jesus’s name.
The term is credited by Roy Goble, entrepreneur and author of Salvaged and Junkyard Wisdomto his father. Roy’s father called his business a “for-profit ministry.”
A what?
That’s what Roy’s dad called their family business, a junkyard in Silicon Valley, of all places. He had a holistic approach to business and people.
Yes, he was a businessman who was committed to turning a profit so it could provide for his family. He saw it as an opportunity to help people, by giving them a job or using it as a tool to help anyone who came his way or onto their property.
One of his favorite things to do was to help his employees ensure a way for their children to go to college. There was an intentionality of bringing Christ with him to the junkyard every day.
Roy shared that his father’s example set the bar for how hiswork would always include Jesus Christ. He said he was not aware there was a way to work without his faith being a part of it.
As James 4:17 exhorts us, “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
What would it take for you to transition your business to a “for-profit ministry” this year?
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