God’s Desire for Newness Extends to the Business Sector

God loves newness. He delighted in it when he first created the world (Genesis 1 – 2) and he continues to delight in it as he makes “all things new” in our present age (Revelation 21:5). One of the beautiful ways God makes His glory known on Earth is that He deposits attributes of himself all over the place, in very diverse areas of life. Love can show up in a house or in a game of chess or in a song. Gentleness can show up in a jungle gym or in the Olympics or in a woodworking shop. God is glorified through it all. So too can newness be found, to God’s glory, in all aspects of life.

Therefore, in the same way that we as Christians are called upon to deposit God’s other joys—empathy, grace, truth, and the like—into as many aspects of life as we can, we should view it as our call to deposit newness into as many aspects of life as we can. The business sector is an aspect of life especially conducive to this sort of ministry. Entrepreneurship, specifically, beckons us to innovate and challenge and break-ground in previously static places. More than simply a center for profit, business at its root is a playground for novel problem-solving.

Thus, missions-minded entrepreneurship is not an oxymoron, but a given. For the entrepreneur living for God’s glory, it is a way to praise God Himself.

I want to close with a quote I once read from a music major here at Grove City College. It said, “I chose to go into music because it is my favorite way to glorify God.” What a beautiful summary of the conversation. A sure-fire way to glorify God in any profession is to use that profession as a vehicle to praise him, rather than trying to fit Him into it after the fact. If we use the newness central to entrepreneurship as a vehicle to praise God, I think it would make a very positive impact, not only in the business sector, but in our own lives and walk with God.