Running a business with some Bible concepts

1. By Benjie Buenaventura

2. DILIGENCE

3. DILIGENT
Diligence means “quick, skillful or ready”
• Good business is quick to respond to customers.
• Customers likes to be attended immediately.
• Receives best attention and best information as
soon as they request it
Stand before Kings – when business grows, owners
obtains wealth.

4. DILIGENCE

5. DILIGENCE
Slothfulness is slowness and indolence,
and it includes laziness.
• An aspect that drives customers always
“Fervent” comes from a Greek word
which is related to something boiling.
• Customers prefers to do good business with high
spirited people.
• Full of energy

6. DILIGENCE

7. DILIGENCE
Business which is always on alert
Always watching every details
Trying new things and note the results.

8. RIGHT PLANNING

9. RIGHT PLANNING
Business
• Before starting a business,
Bible think what we hope to do
with that business.
• God wants us to set before • need to work out the
him our plans and our general parameters of the
intensions FIRST business – site, size,
• Before going to the stock, suppliers, type of
thinking part, established customers, staff, vehicles,
what we hope to DO. and so on. There are
dozens of details which
need to be decided on
before the doors open.

10. THINKING

11. THINKING
If we have filled our head with wise
information, good, clear thinking, the best
facts, and not allowed negative, or foolish
thinking in, we will tend to prosper.
It is the thinking of managers that either
makes or breaks a business. They can
either think their way to prosperity, or to
want.

12. MORALITY

13. MORALITY
Anyone who
operates a
business MUST The moral laws Grasping them
have a good moral operate reliably leads to success,
framework, or too, and no person ignoring or
what is known as is immune from rejecting them
“ethics” to support their effects leads to failure.
every part of that
business.

14. ACCURATE MEASURES

15. ACCURATE MEASURES
God commands
that all weights
and measures
be equitable
People expects
fair value for
their money.

16. PRINCIPLE OF SABBATH
Principle of having a rest is crucial to health and happiness
Part of a healthy lifestyle has to include recreation
The day was given partly as a token of God’s love for
Mankind, in which they were to acknowledge Him as their
Creator, and devote some of the day to worship and thanks.

17. HONESTY
This law applies to everyone, even non-
christian
Laws of business is neutral. Like our natural
laws, it works regardless of who uses it.
To do what is right regardless of those around
them who are corrupt.

18. MOTIVES

19. MOTIVES
In others words, all things are
temporary, everything passes.
Fundamental question when starting
a business – Why am I doing this?
To make a business the sole focus of
our energy is futile

20. KINGDOM THINKING

21. KINGDOM THINGKING
Which kingdom do we
serve, God or Satan? We either live for the true God
and behave like Him, or we
follow our base nature, and
reflect the repulsive qualities
of the fallen angel Lucifer.
In business, either
we practice
kingdom principles We can be generous
or the opposite and gracious or
greedy and rude.

22. LABOUR OR LUXURY

23. LABOUR OR LUXURY
Every aspect Employee does
It requires has to be the work but
A business is a
maintenance, monitored and employer does
great
planning and adjustments all the worrying
responsibility.
overseeing need to be in running the
made regularly business