By Huston Malande
Article from The Gospel Coalition Africa
Life is hard. You don’t have to be a Christian (or an entrepreneur) to know that. Life is just hard, for everyone, everywhere. The ancient curse of Genesis 3 hangs over every endeavour like a dark oppressive cloud.
However, it doesn’t always seem like everyone is struggling. In fact, people who don’t care about Jesus often seem to thrive! Is this not the psalmist’s chief complaint to God in Psalm 73? He contends with God, “They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.”
The Trials of a Christian Entrepreneur
Perhaps the only thing harder than existing in a dark world, is being a living sacrifice and living as the very light that the darkness hates.
It’s harder to be honest in a world full of liars and lies. It’s harder to be generous in a world full of greed. And it’s a lot harder to be profitable in entrepreneurship when the rules of the game – or lack thereof – are skewed against you. In fact, they seem to favour those who live as if they won’t have to answer to God in the end.
So how can a Christian venture into entrepreneurship and expect to survive—let alone thrive? For ours is a an incredibly cut-throat business environment. If the estimate is accurate and 95% of all new businesses fail, why would a believer risk their time and money jumping into a pool of sharks? The odds are stacked against believers in every conceivable way.
5 Tips From My Entrepreneurial Journey
The answer to this question could fill the pages of a book. But I’ll give you 5 thoughts that, by God’s grace, have helped me throughout my own 11 year entrepreneurial journey…KEEP READING