What? Spiritually-Alive Entrepreneur? How is that NOT some kind oxymoron?
Do a word association game for most people with the word “entrepreneur” I doubt the words “spiritually-alive” will come up, will they? More likely words like; “Money.” “Risk.” “14-hour days.” “Profit.” “Loss.”
Did I say “risk?”
Yet, if you define “entrepreneurship” as “a person who creates products and services that meet needs and solve problems…” instead of “taking risk to make profit,” or just “a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses,” the best source for that kind of purposeful entrepreneurship....
The Bible. Really, it’s THE best source for entrepreneurial wisdom. Who knew!?
Certainly not me! Because I confess I broke the laws of Biblical entrepreneurship in big ways.
And I paid a price for it… diminished health. Diminished hope. Diminished finances. Diminished relationships. And most of all a diminished soul.
The real Jeff Caliguire story involves years of pain and missed potential because I broke the number one law of Biblical entrepreneurship from the start. (and other ones too : {
Unfortunately, the majority of entrepreneurs today break this number one rule of entrepreneurship! Most just don’t know anything different. How many churches teach Biblical entrepreneurship? But they should! (Some are starting! Stay tuned.)
So I’m going public with my story and what I’ve learned the hard way.
What’s that “law?”
It’s THE very first thing man and woman experience after being created. It’s the thing that comes see yourself as blessed.
Receive the blessing God wants to give you FIRST. Recognize all you have before setting out to plan, do, prove, provide. You are blessed NOW! Not when. You have now been blessed NOW.
God saw the good things that could come for humans through work. He invited them to join Him in an entrepreneurial pursuit to meet needs, create new ideas and offer.
The first act of God towards man and woman after creating them:
“God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (Genesis 1:28)
