Do you want to start a work at home Christian business? If so, you need to prepare yourself for all that goes along with it
Having
the word “Christian” in the title or description of your business means
that most people, particularly fellow Christians, will expect more of
you than they do from other business owners. You need to make sure that
you infuse your mission statement, goals, and overall tactics with
Christian values, and advertise it as such. Otherwise, all you have is a
home business, which are a dime a dozen.
It is important for you
to decide what values you will include in your business model. You need
to ensure that you are not easily taken advantage of just because you
are Christian and want to set a good example. As long as you are not
gluttonous, it is okay to make money from this business and enjoy it.
You still need to make a living; in fact, the more successful a
Christian business is, the more you can share God’s word with the rest
of the world, inspiring others through your products or services.
One
typical expectation of a Christian business is good customer service.
Remember that treating others as you want to be treated is a common
theme in this religion, and is an important tradition of such businesses
to carry on. Customers will remember such treatment, and realize that
it separates your business from countless others attempting to get their
attention.
Great customer service of your clients and prospects
is just one value to utilize in your work at home Christian business.
You also need to decide how you will spend extra money that you make
from the company. Typically, many Christians tend to donate money to
charity, either through the church or directly. You will need to decide
which charities to concentrate on. People typically select a cause to
donate to that has personally impacted their own life in some way. In case you loved this informative article and you would like to receive more details relating to Christian Gifts assure visit our own web page.
Another
important task to perform at the start of your business is to set
goals. You need to decide what your company’s main purpose is. Are you
just trying to pay bills and work from home, or do you truly believe in
its cause and want to bring inspiration to others through your products
or services? If you want this to be your only job, how much money do you
need to make per month in order to pay your bills?
When you have
made the critical start up business decisions, you need to stick to
your plan, periodically evaluating and readjusting accordingly. In most
cases, the most successful companies started with a plan, tweaking it
slightly only when needed. A solid business plan will allow you to make a
living working from home in a Christian business.
I would like to share with you four Scriptures which I feel will help you and I to be more serious about being a Christian. There are many lessons which can be drawn from these four Scriptures. It is my prayer that this lesson will give you strength to carry on in your daily Christian walk.
“And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord,
choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods
which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or
the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15) This is one of my
favorite verses because I feel that Christians have to choose daily whom
they will serve. The real meat of the verse is, “choose for yourselves
this day whom you will serve. . . But as for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord.” The society in which we live has so many areas that try
to keep us from serving the Lord. For the Christian today, all too
often it is a daily choice as to whom we will serve.
I am not
speaking of salvation here. Hopefully for you that has already been
taken care of. I am speaking of serving God. So what does that mean? It
means giving 100% of your life to Christ and let Him control it. It
means not letting your job, money, friends, family, pleasure seeking,
social status, etc. get in the way of your serving God. It means
forsaking any and all of those things mentioned above if it interferes
with your relationship with God. It means letting Christian ideals guide
your relationships with your boss, family, friends, business dealings,
etc. And it means that when we are confronted with a decision, our first
reaction is asking ourselves (or fellow Christians) “What would Jesus
have me do in this situation?”
Serving God is really having Him
in the forefront of our minds at all times. Always being conscience of
our thoughts, words and actions to make certain that they are consistent
with the teachings of Christ and the New Testament writers. It is doing
the Christian thing, even if it hurts! It is striving to be like Christ in every aspect of our lives.
After
we have committed our lives to Christ and strive to really serve Him,
what next. Jesus tells us in the book of Matthew, “But seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be
added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
How can we serve God without
seeking Him? It is really impossible to serve Him without seeking Him.
So, if you are trying to “serve” Him and not “seek” Him you will fail.
The very act of serving Him means you must seek Him.
How do we
seek God? First, we must throw off the phoniness of playing Christian.
Making an appearance at church once a week is not seeking God. It is
much, much more than that. Seeking God means that we have a very active
Bible Study program. Not just attending Sunday School and going through
the lesson. Having a plan to studying the Bible. Seeking out good
quality Bible study aids and literature to help us in our study. Develop
a plan to read through the Bible in a year. But even then you are not
through. Study various topics, events, eras, books, miracles,
prophecies, etc. No matter how old one gets, they should never stop
studying the Bible.
We must also seek God through a daily prayer
time. Pick a particular time of the day in which you can be alone with
God. Tell Him in an honest straightforward manner your prayer concerns,
what your worried about, troubles you may be having, people you want to
pray for, and so forth. And don’t forget to praise God in your prayers.
Tell Him how much you love Him. Thank Him for all the blessings you have
received and for the answered prayers. Praise Him and glorify Him in
your prayers.
We need to be faithful to worship services. Not
just when you feel like attending. We should have an attitude that we
will be in worship service unless it is practically impossible to be
there. Unless you have a serious illness that should be about 95% of the
time. And in conjunction with that we should be faithful to the Lord’s
Supper each Lord’s Day.
If you have been successful in serving (I
mean really serving) the Lord and if you have been successful in
seeking (I mean really seeking) God then the next subject is really a
foregone conclusion: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom
shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send
me.'” (Isaiah 6:8)
If we truly love God and serve Him and seek
Him, we not only want to be able to spread the good news, we look for
ways and opportunities to spread the good news. How can one be a
Christian and not ever tell others about what He has done for them? In
reality, they can’t! If they are not telling others what Christ has done
for them and meant to them, then they should really begin to question
the validity of their conversion.
How can we do this? Share
Christ with our brothers and sisters in Christ. Help give them the
strength to carry on and “fight the good fight.” Share this and other
literature with them, and help them to see the need in their lives to be
more faithful. Host Bible study groups or discussion groups in your
home. Share your love for Christ with your friends, neighbors, and
coworkers who are not Christian. Always be aware of opportunities to
speak out and support Christian values when you can. Our values are
being attacked daily in almost every area of society. It is not
difficult to find opportunities to do this. And finally, visit the sick
and shut-ins to give them a ray of hope and love from a fellow
Christian. We who are able-bodied have no way of knowing how much our
time, love, and compassion means to these fine people. Let’s help them
in their final days on earth to know that Christians love them.
I
started this print ministry (Be Ye Doers Of The Word) because I see a
need for Christians to develop an effective Bible study at home. I hope
that these monographs spark a little interest in what God’s Word has to
say to us that are living today. The truths found in the Bible are just
as relevant to our Christian walk as they were to the people living in
the first century. Can you start your own personal ministry? Of course
you can. It doesn’t have to be a print ministry such as this. It can
really be anything: visiting the sick, teaching Sunday School, working
with youth groups, singing in the choir, etc. Each person striving to
serve Christ should (maybe MUST) have a personal ministry and try to
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And
just as important as the preceding three Scriptures is this: “. . . not
My will, but Yours, be done.” (Luke 22:42b) Jesus told this to His and
our Heavenly Father just before He was crucified when He was praying in
the garden. This is the kind of attitude that we must have as
Christians. We all have deep concerns in our lives, things that really
trouble us. We often pray to God and ask for Him to help us in a
particular way. But what we really should be seeking is His will in our
lives, not our will in His life.
This is difficult for us to
accept. Often we are not sure what God’s will is for us. For example, we
may really want a different job and may be trying to get it by whatever
means is available to us. We pray and ask God to help us secure the new
job — but that we want His will to be done. Then, how much should we
try to get this new job? If we don’t try hard enough to get the job, and
don’t, is it because God did not want us to have the job, or because we
didn’t try hard enough to get it? We can only do one thing! Try as hard
as we can to get the job we want, do what is acceptable to secure it.
Then if we actually get the job, we can rest assured that it was God’s
will, and if we don’t, we will know that it was God’s will as well.
In
many instances we can determine what God’s will is for us. We can do
this by studying the Scriptures and being aware of what they have to say
about particular subjects. We know that lying, stealing, murder,
adultery, etc. is against God’s will. So if we are considering any of
these, we don’t need to wonder what His will is, the Bible tells us.
There are many other less drastic examples, being faithful to worship
services, meeting around the Lord’s Table, giving of our tithes, helping
a brother or sister in need, and so forth. These are all spelled out in
the Bible. Studying the Bible helps us to know these things.
Choose
this day whom you will serve! Seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness! Here am I, send me! Not my will, but Yours be done! This
is truly a road-map to good Christian living. May God bless you as you
continue the journey to Heaven.
All scriptures quoted are from the New King James Version unless otherwise noted.
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