Marketplace Kingdom Season Two Episode 4: Kingdom Business Now

According to our friend Fulton Sheen, the key pivot point for a
Christian understanding of business and finance comes when
believers realize that they’re not owners, but rather stewards of
the resources with which God has entrusted them. That shift in
understanding brings with it a critical shift in focus and in the
principles to which we are responsible. In the Book of Ruth, when
Boaz was allowing Ruth to glean, he didn’t leave her with just
enough to eat. He very specifically left MORE, so that she could go
out and sell the extra grain…to make some money as well as eat. He
was allowing her to go way beyond mere subsistence. He was allowing
her to flourish. So what does a Kingdom oriented business and
economic culture really look like? The over-riding character of the
world’s approach is the law of the jungle…survival of the fittest.
When setting up a deal, a contract, a business relationship or any
other financial transaction, the world thinks “How can I win and
come out on top?” A Kingdom approach is different. It asks “How can
I structure the best deal so that I, my company, my employees, as
well as the other people with whom I’m contracting will all
prosper. How can everybody come out in the best way possible?” “We
believe that in God’s Kingdom, all shall prosper, so we want to
make sure that you’re going to prosper…and we’re going to prosper…”
“Kingdom Business Now” is our second interview with Fulton Sheen.
Access this vital conversation today.