Establishing Operational Values for Your Business Os Hillman • Entrepreneurship Every business should have operational values from which it operates. This document is the Operational Values used by Marketplace Leaders, a business that helps men and women fulfill their calling in and through their work life. Apostles in the Workplace Dr .Peter Wagner • Entrepreneurship The church, as we would all agree, is not a human institution. The church was designed by the eternal God and instituted by Jesus when He came to Earth. This is a very important assumption because, throughout history, church leaders have tended to deviate from God’s blueprint quite radically. The rest of this chapter profiles God’s design for the church. Kingdom Entrepreneur—Leaders and the Prohetic Morris Ruddick • Entrepreneurship “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.” (1 Corinthians 12:1, 7) The most pivotal and strategic initiatives facing the Church, the Messianic Jewish community and Israel can probably be accurately described in the natural as “against all odds.” They are situations bound for failure — unless God shows up. Historically, the way the Lord has “shown” up in instance after instance described in His Word has been through His people — who have learned to hear His voice. The role of God’s economy in the course of world events today involves a particular group of leaders whose callings follow after that of the patriarchs. Planning: What's In, What's Not? Os Hillman • Entrepreneurship Is planning biblical? I believe it is. The Bible encourages us to write down our visions and plans. However, all plans must be submitted to the Lord continually for new direction and clarity. Today things change rapidly and it is very difficult to develop plans much farther out than five years. And even that is questionable. Technology is changing so fast that a five-year plan will be obsolete in six months. My suggestion: write your plans in "pencil." Entrepreneurialism that Can Transform the 9 to 5 Window Os Hillman • Entrepreneurship One of the major problems facing Christian education today is a failure to affirm a calling into business as a spiritual calling on par with any other mission activity. We have an unwritten code that portrays a hierarchy of spiritual calling. It goes like this: The pastor holds the highest position, the missionary the next highest position, the church worker is the next highest, then comes the stay-at-home mom, then the secular worker and the CEO is the next to the last and then lowest of the lowest is – the lawyer! Actually, there is no biblical foundation for this hierarchy of calling based upon Colossians 3:23, 24 where Paul says, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”