A People of Resource: Bringing the Kingdom of Heaven at Scale

Entrepreneurs are some of the most resourceful people I know. They see a need, they find a way to solve it. They find a gap, they discover the tools to bridge it. They uncover an opportunity and they resource whatever is necessary to jump on that chance before it's gone.

Entrepreneurs: resourceful by nature.

If you're an entrepreneur, I bet you can think back to times that you worked on a team of people who were not quite as resourceful as you. You may have noticed that most people are not self-starters and innovators the way that you are. They see a need or a gap or an opportunity and... that's it. No action. No ideating. No dreaming.

The thing that's caught my attention, though, is that Christian entrepreneurs are a people of more than just your average amount of resources.

Christian entrepreneurs—people who are really after Jesus—have resources they can't even see or touch.

We are literally carriers of saving grace, healing forgiveness, unfiltered love, uncommon joy, unexplainable peace, abundant patience (we try), active kindness, the very definition of goodness, loyal faithfulness... I could go on.

At our disposal are resources that cannot be accessed by those that Jesus came to save. And we carry them around freely.

“And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand. ' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.” Matthew 10:7-8

Freely we have been given! And so freely we can give.

And, as catalytic thinkers and movers, we are built to see the advancement of the kingdom of heaven in a way that's deeply connected to those resources.

But we've forgotten how.

We've forgotten to think at scale.

When we sit down to strategize we have the ability to ask the Holy Spirit to bring wisdom and clarity and vision. And we have the abundance of the Kingdom of Heaven at our disposal!

Let me say again for those in the back: we have the abundance of an unseen reality; the abundance of a Creator God; the abundance of Holy Savior. And all at our disposal for the advancement of Heaven on earth. 

• I'm talking safe neighborhoods full of families reconciled back to God. 

   

• Unified bodies of Christ who are reaching new people with the Gospel.

   

• Thriving communities of people that respect and love each other.

   

• Happy, nurtured children and strong, purposeful men.

So, how come we've forgotten to think at scale? 

I believe this is the business of the Holy Spirit as He moves in and around the marketplace. As he wakes us up to His purposes in our daily work. As He nudges the entrepreneurial community all over the globe.

He's thinking big.

He's thinking Kingdom of Heaven big.

And He's already given just the right resources to move. The tenacity to try. The risk tolerance to fail.

He's built entrepreneurs to capitalize on every seen and unseen, known and yet-to-be-discovered resource!

 So let's go heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out the demons (yep, I said it)... and let's think big. Utilizing every resource at our disposal.