The document discusses the role of business and work in God's kingdom. It provides context on the history of business and how nations prospered through business that was consecrated to God. It discusses that God gives the ability to create wealth in order to establish His kingdom on Earth. The size and potential influence of believers in the workplace and business is reviewed, noting they currently only have about 1% of the total market share. The purpose and calling of business and work is presented as solving problems and meeting human needs while being a platform for societal transformation and influence for the kingdom of God.

1. The Mountain of Business
Session 2
7M Culture Shapers
MASTERCLASS

3. The Mountain of Business
The business mountain holds the power over
economy, resources, and power
that are either consecrated for the kingdom of
God or captured for the powers
of darkness.

4. History of
Business
Nations in Europe and North America that became
prosperous through business can attribute their
prosperity to the reformers of the 1500s. Martin
Luther and John Calvin made the greatest impact.

5. The Purpose of Business
Deuteronomy 8 tells us God
gives us the ability to create
wealth in order to establish
His Kingdom on earth.
That is why you have
been given money!

6. Size of the Church in the Workplace

8. Market Size
Believers in the
workplace
30 million small businesses
30% are believers.

9. Market Size
Population of America
333,000,000
150,000,000
Adult Workers
Estimated
45 Million Believers
In workforce
Note: George Barna estimates 35% of population are born again
https://www.barna.com/research/state-church-2016/
30 mil
Small businesses
Est 9
million
owned
By
believers
Source: US Bureau
Labor Stats

10. 1%!
Market
Share

11. Ruling Stronghold of Business
Mammon
Pride
Greed
Power
Control
“Babylon”

12. Avoiding Babylon 7 & Mammon
If we are using occult powers, new age powers, freemasonry,
spiritism, bribery, manipulation, horoscopes and the like to
establish and promote our business or working lives, then we
are most certainly working in Babylon.
Revelation 17:16 tells us that the harlot, 'Mystery Babylon' is
made desolate, and Revelation 18 tells us graphically of the
downfall of the City of Babylon.

13. The Sub-Prime Bailout
Case Study

14. 21 Trillion Dollars
US
Govt
Debt

15. So what really happened
in that garden?
“Cursed is the ground”
Gen 3:17
Lost
dominion
Joy to
Toil
Sweat
Thorns

16. Understanding God’s
View of Work
How did work get
such a bad rap!?

17. 300 AD
“Catholic Distortion”
Sacred vs secular
1200 AD
“Protestant Distortion”
Work = vocation vs a Calling
Net?
• 2nd class citizens
• Work is less spiritual
• Money is evil
• Workers viewed for $
by clergy vs calling

18. 2 Men Lost

19. Jesus & Paul modeled
work life ministry.
• New Testament – Of 132 public
appearances in NT, 122 in the
marketplace
• Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a
workplace context. Of 40 miracles in
the book of Acts, 39 were in the
marketplace.

20. Key Fallacy
Hierarchy of spiritual calling.
Pastor
Missionary
Evangelist
Church Worker
Vocational Ministry Worker
Stay-at-home mom
Plumber
CEO/Executive
Scum of the earth…
Ad Agency Executive
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.
Col 3:23-24
Lawyer!

21. Give $
WORK
Meet human
needs
Work is
worship
“Avodah”
Platform
Influence - societal
transformation
“Ministry”
equates to
“Service”
“diakonia”
Work IS Ministry Work TO Minister
Col 3:23-25
And whatever you do,
do it heartily,
as to the Lord and not to men,
knowing that from the Lord
you will receive the reward
of the inheritance;
for you serve the Lord Christ. Care
for
Poor
Lev 19:9-10

22. History Workplace Ministry
CBMC
1930
Marketplace
Leaders
1997
Executive
Ministries
1960s
ICWM
1998
FGBMFI
1951
C12
1992
ICCC
1985
CMDL
1991
Pinnacle
Forum
1995
Workplace
Ministry
Workplace
Ministry
Evangelism
Theology
of work
Church-
Based
Ministry
2000
Spirituality
@Work
1997
Social
Transformation
Half Time
1995
7 Mountains
Strategy
Ed Silvoso, Billy Graham,
Henry Blackaby, Peter Wagner
FCCI
1977

23. “What Defines a Christian
in the Workplace?”
– NY Times Reporter

26. He Instructs Us and Gives Us Our
Ability. BezaIel
• …chosen Bezalel .. . him with the Spirit of God, with
skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts-- to
make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and
bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to
engage in all kinds of craftsmanship. “Ex 31:1-6
“They are to make them just as I commanded you.”
–Ex . 31: 11
God will instruct us in performing our work.

27. Do you see a man who excels in
his work? He will stand before
kings; He will not stand before
unknown men.
Proverbs 22.9

28. “I have offended God and mankind
because my work didn’t reach the quality
it should have.”
Leonardo Da Vinci

30. What you uncover,
God covers.
What you cover,
God uncovers
through humiliation.

31. Sometimes your talent takes you beyond
where your integrity can keep you.
The greater the success,
the greater the integrity test.

32. Compromise always
leads to deceit.

33. When we live in compromise we lose
confidence in the faith dimension of our
lives and struggle to hear God's voice.

35. It’s the servants
who see
water turned into
wine.

38. 5 Dimensions of Faith Works
Eqypt – “Flesh/Carnal”
The World System – “Sweat & Toil”
Esau
Principle-based
Formula – “10 Steps “Religion”
Moses
“Spoken Word”
“Speak to the Rock!”
Spiritual authority – Keys of Kingdom
Directed by Holy Spirit –
Your “Staff”
“Relationship w God”
Implement purely
on skill
Life of Sin
So he said to me, "This is the word
of the LORD to Zerubbabel: `Not by
might nor by power, but by my
Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty
(Zech 4:6)
Spirit-led
Romans 8:14
“I will instruct you and teach
you in the way you should
go; I will guide you with My
eye.” Ps 32:8
“Joseph Pit”
Character development

39. Gunnar Olson
Plastic Bag Story

40. Moses
“Perform miracles.”
“But take this staff in your hand so you can
perform miraculous signs with it."
Ex 4:17

41. Understanding
Our Spiritual Authority
in our Work Life Call
Keys of the Kingdom – Matthew 16:19
Speak to the Mountain!
Mark 11:23

42. What is your personal “brand”?

43. What is your personal “brand”?
Perception is Reality
What message do you communicate
through your life?
 Late vs on time for meetings?
 Pay bills on time?
 Return calls when I say I will?
 Serve others?
 Integrity?
 Generous?
 Workaholic?
 Joyful?
 Controlling?
 Serving God?
 Disorganized?

45. Psalm 15 - The Marketplace
Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle?
Who may dwell in Your holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly,
And works righteousness,
And speaks the truth in his heart;
3 He who does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor does he take up a reproach against his
friend;

46. The word “competition”
is not found in the Bible.
O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance (Ps 16:5-6).
We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere
which God appointed us — a sphere which especially includes you. For we are not
overextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to
you that we came with the gospel of Christ; not boasting of things beyond measure,
that is, in other men's labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we
shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere, to preach the gospel in the regions
beyond you, and not to boast in another man's sphere of accomplishment (2 Cor
10:13-16).

47. God has determined our
purpose
“For we are God’s
workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do.”
– Ephesians 2:10

49. Egypt
Work Life Call Journey
3 Phases
“Slavery”
Ps 127:1
vs a son
“To Speak”
“Test”
“Manna”
Hosea 2
“Inheritance”
Dt 8 and
Josh 24: 13
sonship
Desert
Promised
Land

50. Reason for Business
But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who
gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so
confirms his covenant, which he swore to your
ancestors, as it is today.

51. Reason for Business
If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow
other gods and worship and bow down to them, I
testify against you today that you will surely be
destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed
before you, so you will be destroyed for not
obeying the LORD your God. Dt 8:18-20

52. …built on the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself
as the chief cornerstone. -- Eph. 2:20
Apostle Prophet
Pastor Teacher Evangelist
Mature Church
Kingdom of God Established in the City
Jesus Jesus

53. Building the Church in the Workplace Ephesians
5 Gifts/Offices
It was he who gave some to be
apostles, prophets, evangelists,
pastors teachers…
… to prepare God's people for
works of service…
Eph 4:11-13

54. …built on the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself
as the chief cornerstone. -- Eph. 2:20
Apostle
Entreprenuer/CEO
Prophet
CFO,CEO?
Pastor
Customer
Service/HR/CEO
Teacher
Corporate Trainer
Evangelist
Outside Sales
Mature Church, Inc.
Kingdom of God Established in the City
Jesus Jesus

55. Kingdom
business
Leaders
should
solve a
problem

56. God is waiting for his change agents
to step into their destiny.
The creation waits in eager expectation for the
sons of God to be revealed-Romans 8:19

57. Live such good lives among the pagans that,
though they accuse you of doing wrong, they
may see your good deeds and glorify God on
the day he visits us.
I Peter 2:12

58. David’s
Big
Audacious
Idea
What will be done?
• Kings daughter
• No taxes
• Great wealth
• Understood covenant
“Uncircumcised Philistine?”
From delivering food to delivering a nation

59. Becoming a Change Agent
“Can we find anyone like this man, one in
whom is the spirit of God?”
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God
has made all this known to you, there is
no one so discerning and wise as you.
You shall be in charge…” Gen 41:38, 39

60. Joseph, a Change Agent
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled
according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater
than you." And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over
all the land of Egypt" (Gen 41:38-41).

61. Johannes Gutenberg
inventor of the printing press 1455
60 years later - Protestant Reformation 1517

62. Johannes Gutenberg
• “Let us give wings to Truth in order that
she may win every god that comes into
the world by her word, no longer written at
vast expense, but multiplied everlastingly
by a machine which never wearies.”

63. Johannes Gutenberg
• “It is a press, certainly, but through it, God
will spread His Word; a spring of pure
truth shall flow from like a new star it shall
scatter the darkness of ignorance, and
cause a light hitherto fore unknown to
shine among men.”

64. George Washington
Carver
• 300 marketable products – peanut
• 100 sweet potato
• Transformed southern economy

65. “Man, who needed a purpose, a mission, to keep him alive,
had one. He could be God’s coworker. My purpose alone
must be God’s purpose. As I worked on projects which
fulfilled a real human need, forces were working through me
which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an
apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was
there.”

67. Visions & Witty Inventions

68. Every great invention goes through 3 stages:
1. Ridiculed
2. Opposed
3. Self-evident

69. God has this unreasonable
and consistent habit of
coming to us from our
destiny, not our history.

70. Where did David go after being
anointed by Samuel?
Returned to the sheep after being anointed
by Samuel to be king – 1 Samuel 16:19

71. “Usually a person
should keep on with the
work he was doing
when God called him.”
I Cor. 7: 20

72. Paul to Titus on Island of Crete
“Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-
minded, in all things showing yourself to be a
pattern of good works..…. that they may
adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all
things.”
Titus 2:6-10

73. It is an established fact that Jewish
people tend to prosper more
than others in society.
The Jewish Phenomenon
by Thomas Silbiger.

74. Jewish people comprise only 2% of the U.S.
population, yet;
• 40% of the top 10% of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans
(all Billionaires) are Jewish (at least 25% of the Forbes 400
list overall each year are also Jewish)
• 25% of all American Nobel Prize winners are Jewish
• 30% of all American Nobel Prize winners in science are
Jewish

75. • 20% of all professors at leading U.S. universities
are Jewish
• 40% of the partners at leading New York and
Washington D.C. law firms are Jewish
• Jewish people own many of the major movie
studios in Hollywood.
• Jewish people own many of the top banks
and investment banking firms

76. LOGO
Proclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men,
Let all the men of war draw near,
Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into
swords and your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’” Assemble and
come, all you nations, And gather together all
around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there ,
O Lord. Joel 3:9-11

77. LOGO
Two Companies that Impacted Culture
by Standing Against Unrighteousness

78. LOGO
Hobby Lobby

79. Making conservative values hate speech
The devil always twists truth!

80. Understanding the
Signs of the Times
Only Samuel knew that King Saul
was yesterday’s man.

81. Donald Trump & America
“Drain the swamp!”
• God’s chaos president. “Messy!”
• America’s “Cyrus” - Isa 45. Businessman
• “Donald Trump is the wrecking ball
• to America’s political correctness.”
• Prophesied to be president years before.
• A “Churchhill” type of leader.
• America is in a “window of grace…” for now.
• Pending debt crisis – $20 trillion

82. Donald Trump & America
“Drain the swamp!”
“America has been lifted out of many
of its most difficult hours through the
miracle of faith. Now, in these hard
times for our country, let us turn into
our Christian heritage to lift up the
soul of our nation. "

83. Trump – Cyrus?
• I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will
make all his ways straight.
• He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward, says the Lord
Almighty." (Isa 45:13).

84. Tom’s Shoes

85. Summary
• We are to manifest God’s presence in the area of our calling.
• We are to solve problems through business.
• We are called to acquire wealth for the sake of His Kingdom -
Dt 8:18
• Social entrepreneurship should be used to solve a global
problem.
• Satan has no new tricks; his old ones work just fine. Pride of
life, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes. 1 Jn 2:16

86. What can I do as one individual to make
an impact for God on the mountain of business?
How have these examples motivated
you to find a way to make your own impact
in the marketplace? Will your actions
intersect in any of the following areas?

87. 1. We learned that Zechariah 4:6 instructs believers to combine
their natural abilities with the power of God, which is being
manifested in the area of your calling. How can you follow this
instruction?
2. God wants you to let go and let Him work. Have you yielded
completely to Him in the area of your goals and purposes for
your life?

88. 3. God is looking for righteous business leaders who will
turn our nation back to a righteous form of commerce. How
can you help in this area?
4. Deuteronomy 8 tells us that God gives us the ability to
create wealth in order to establish His kingdom on earth.
How are you using your wealth to advance His kingdom?

89. What would success look like on the business mountain?
• There would be more integrity in business
and less opportunity
• for greed and mammon to rule in the
marketplace, making the
• marketplace and culture more prosperous.
• • Special noonday prayer meetings would be
held in the workplace,
• asking God to direct their efforts.

90. What would success look like on the business mountain?
• More inventions that solve societal problems would result
as entrepreneurs learn to gain direction from God in their
working lives. They would have greater influence as a fruit of
fulfilling their calling.
• There would be less corporate scandals.
• There would be less crime in our cities because there would
be healthier families producing healthier people spiritually
who would do honest work.

91. • There would be more wealth created as men and women
fulfill Deuteronomy 8:18 to have the ability to create wealth to
establish God’s covenant on the earth.
• Christian CEOs would ban together and commit their
corporate profits to philanthropic enterprises and care for the
poor. More money would be given to Christian causes.
• More money would be received into the local church as
business leaders tithed and gave offerings generously from
their increase.
What would success look like on the business mountain?

92. What would success look like on the business mountain?
• By acknowledging that God is the source of
science and technology, there would be
greater innovation and revelation of the world
around us.
• Unemployment would be greatly reduced.

93. Further Study
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94. This week’s 7M Leader Interview
Access in the Teleseminar Interview Area
David Green, Founder, Hobby Lobby

95. Prayer