When You Realize That There’s No Script

A big challenge in a Kingdom Business is how to walk out ‘planning’ and living by the promptings of the Holy Spirit. In our journey, we realize more and more that living without a script in Kingdom Business is actually more profitable

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Striving versus Taking Action? An Interview with Jim Robbins

On this show, we are privileged to have on as our guest, Jim Robbins, author of the book, Recover Your Good Heart. We have enjoyed Jim’s writings, podcasts, and interviews in the past, and we’re excited to have him speak with us on the topic of “Striving versus Taking Action?”. How do we approach business from a “place of rest”? How do we maintain our edge as entrepreneurs by being decisive and taking action without crossing the line and running our business by our own power? These and other questions will be bantered about by our guest Jim Robbins, and your hosts Matthew Gillogly and Bob Regnerus.

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Your Freedom In The Resurrection

I had the most unusual Easter weekend, or resurrection weekend as I prefer to call it. I was able to reach a greater understanding of the freedom we experience in Christ through the resurrection and how it relates to business.

But be forewarned. This ‘revelation’ if you will, came while sitting on my neighbors patio, drinking beer, eating burgers, watching the kids play in the sprinkler listening to various degrees of ‘faith’.

On Good Friday, my neighbor had an Easter Egg hunt. About 20 kids in all. After, an impromptu party broke out, with some of the guys going to get some beer, some burgers and chips. This all started around 1 PM.

Next to me sat a Catholic. As the burgers went around the table, he ate one. (Catholics.. or ‘good Catholics’ don’t eat meat on Good Friday.) Immediately his wife became a bit upset with him. Not in a bad way, but strongly reminded him that ‘eating red meat on Good Friday during lent was a sin.’

I grew up Catholic. I remember that sense of religious obligation during lent. Having to give something up, making a big deal out of it all. As I sat next to him, I realized that the resurrection of Christ on Sunday freed me from all that religious obligation.

In short, this weekend is every believers ‘Independence Day’. We all became free.

As the weekend moved from Friday to Saturday to Sunday, I began to reflect more and more on this meaning of freedom in our lives, since Christ was resurrected from the grave.  Yes he died on the cross for our sins. Let’s not diminish that point, however we never pay enough attention to the fact he rose from the dead.

When he rose from the dead he brought with him FREEDOM, for all who believed. Many Christian Business owners or Christian Business People, are looking for a set of rules to do business by and from. When Christ rose from the dead, he brought FREEDOM from religious obligation. He allowed us to enter into a holy place where we become partners with God in the family business, not just managers with no equity stake.

Here are just a few things from the FREEDOM of the resurrection. FREEDOM FROM…

• Religious obligation. (I.E. attending church on Sunday)
• Fasting
• Tithing to the church (This comment will rankle a number of you. I’ve done posts on this in the past.)
• Judgment of others as we determine who is more holy or scripturally sound.
• Here’s the kicker… we are free from the guilt of running successful, profitable, fast growing business that brings us, our investors and employees huge amounts of wealth, prosperity, peace, love and joy.

We are FREE to do the following…

• Give to whomever we feel led to give to. Even if this means giving directly to someone in need, not filtering through an organization or religious body.
• To succeed.
• Hit goals, make deadlines and profit without guilt.
• Fire, hire, promote and admonish those in our company and organization based on love.
• Create a workplace of love and joy, even when things don’t go well.
• To think big and bigger than ever before.
• Co-labor with God, and stop working for Him. He is our partner. He doesn’t need us to do anything for Him, rather looking for us to do things with Him.
• Be creative, to develop with Him new solutions to problems he created so that we would come closer to Him.

I could go on and on, hopefully you get the point. You see, so many believers in business are looking for a set of Biblical rules for doing business God’s way.

In reality, God’s way is FREEDOM through His son. We are heirs to the family business. We are FREE to think and operate on levels that the rest of the world wishes they could obtain. As evidenced by the new age thinking that hijacks many Biblical foundations.

Ours is the FREEDOM is permanent. God doesn’t try to tie us to great obligations, He works to free us from this obligation and walk in the FREEDOM of knowing Him in an entire new way.

That my friends, is the revelation of the weekend.

Now go walk in it.

Matt

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