But this is a great illustration of the moral ambiguity of current Corporate America and our response. It’s hard to find a company who doesn’t do some things wrong these days and some things right. Most of this is caused not by malicious intentions of single individuals, but rather by just plain human brokenness (like the consumerist cultural complex) — the same kind that leads families to do some good things and some bad things. I think we must have a redemptive rather than judgmental attitude of todays corps. While we can’t blind ourselves the universal brokenness, we move with Christ to change everything for the better.

Should believers do business with Walmart? Of course. How else can they be in a position to incarnate Christ there and bring positive change? Should we buy and sell and take corps like Walmart as our clients? Yes, most of the time (unless doing so contributes to obvious abuse). Especially when we many help to protect and support people and change corps for the better.

Corps are aggregates of people in one way or another, so God looks at them like his Bride in the books of the Prophets. He wants us to join him in taking back his bride with her good and bad, infidelity, quirks, imperfections, and outright messiness. He can handle cleaning her up.

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Is there a job position in God’s kingdom for passionate, people that they didn’t tell us about? Is there a way to REALLY pursue the Kingdom at work, thru work, in a small business, or a larger corporate environment? Not the ‘weenie kingdom’, where all we do is post a “fish” on our office door…but really making an impact? If this is true, you must tell me! (I think this is the cry of many a commoner like me.)

By faith and in my limited experience, I know this is true. But I think we have yet to see the full reality of this. The reality is most church life avoids speaking directly to business life and most Christians in the business world struggle greatly to live in Kingdom ways. But I think the lessons we’ve learned in simple church will help us fashion something new that brings the Kingdom in new ways.

I’ve been experimenting with different things like training young Jesus-followers in my business (discipleship + business) and using parable and metaphor to share the Gospel incarnationally across the meeting table with clients. While I still feel THE WALL where the Kingdom of Mammon resists the Kingdom of God, the subversive, sneaky, saturating, ways of Jesus I’ve learned in simple church seem to be working.

Now our business is doing very well. I really have no good plan for what to do with all the money. (I also have an unapologetic passion for making money, and feel that it is the fulfillment of God’s purpose for me.) I do know that I am helping and encouraging church planters, right and left. I’m involved with organic church projects coming out my ears. And I’m praying hard about where to give, and hoping that thru all the chaos, I make a difference.

It all started 20 years ago when God led me to give beyond my means by faith, (That’s a whole ‘nother story.) which led to series of miraculous happenings. Part of this process was a sort of prophetic, faith-filled dreaming….fueled by stories of Abraham and how God blessed him. It was almost like what an entrepreneur must experience, but the Christian version. You know, this whole faith thing seems very ‘Jewish’ to me….

Is there a job position in God’s kingdom for passionate, people that they didn’t tell us about? Is there a way to REALLY pursue the Kingdom at work, thru work, in a small business, or a larger corporate environment? Not the ‘weenie kingdom’, where all we do is post a “fish” on our office door…but really making an impact? If this is true, you must tell me! (I think this is the cry of many a commoner like me.)