The Power of the Value You Add

Business is Godly…

I do most of my personal writing at the “Newsletter for Christian Writers”, at heartopage.substack.com, but because I love business and the idea that God created us to feed our families by creating value, I wanted to write here as well.

Though I am a pastor and a writer for a living, I am just as much a business man since I run a writing agency, www.ChristianGhostwriting.com. I love business. I love that we are designed by God to create and add value to others in ways that are worth paying for. 

Much is written and preached about the idea that as Christian Business People we can make money to give to those in need. That’s a worthy pursuit. 

But I don’t think enough is said about the generosity of our business offerings as godly in itself, not because it makes us money to give away, but because it is helpful enough to warrant trade and being paid for it.

God is the one who blesses us and our ventures, but we must have something valuable enough for others if we are to remain in business. This doesn’t just apply to our product, but also every way we deliver and support that product. This also applies to the relationships we build with clients and vendors.

I don’t like that Christians will equate capitalism with worldliness or sin and greed. Sinful and greedy capitalism is worldly and, but don’t call that capitalism; call it theft or oppression—cronyism at best. 

If you are offering honest services or products and being paid for it, good for you. If you are delivering in a loving and God-honoring way, then don’t consider your giving as “giving back” (a dreadful phrase). You’ve already given or we wouldn’t have paid you. 

P.S. I know there is another way to think of giving back that has to do with understanding that everything we have has been given to us by God, even when we’ve earned it. That is valid.