The Center of a Biblical Worldview of Christian Business Ownership

The Center of a Biblical Worldview of Christian Business Ownership

What is the center of a biblical worldview of business ownership? How should a Chrisitian business owner view the owner's role as a steward before God? This is how I define this center, in one sentence: Christian business owners live with an eternal perspective derived from their...
Common Types of Ethical Decisions Christian Business Owners Face

Common Types of Ethical Decisions Christian Business Owners Face

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners. Schwartz (2017:234-235) suggests there are different ethical situations that a business owner may face: Moral temptation: the owner can benefit or avoid loss. Moral temptations require moral willpower. Stand up...
Taking Too Much Compensation as the Owner of a Business

Taking Too Much Compensation as the Owner of a Business

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners.  Description of the Problem: Most business owners take cash out of the business as compensation without any link to the business’s success (Mikaloniené, 2020:919). Cash is often taken because the...
Hearing the Voice of God in Ethical Decision Making

Hearing the Voice of God in Ethical Decision Making

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners.  Ethical decision-making is not merely an intellectual exercise for the Christian business owner. It is also a dynamic spiritual activity. Coupled with filtering the situation’s details through the two great...
Overworking Your Staff to Save on Payroll Expenses

Overworking Your Staff to Save on Payroll Expenses

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners.  In this scenario, an owner expects the employees to work sixty, seventy, or even eighty hours each week without additional compensation, such as bonuses or stock options, for working longer...
Right-sizing a company to save it from bankruptcy

Right-sizing a company to save it from bankruptcy

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners. Nearly every company will need to be right-sized[1] at some point in its lifecycle. No business ever has sustained growth. There are always downturns which owners face. Description of the...
Manipulating Accounting Entries to Save on Taxes

Manipulating Accounting Entries to Save on Taxes

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners.  This ethical situation is created when the owner commingles business and personal expenses. As a result, expenses that would normally be personal expenses, such as leasing an automobile, become business...
Tolerating Boorish Behavior Because of the Benefits an Employee Brings to the Company.

Tolerating Boorish Behavior Because of the Benefits an Employee Brings to the Company.

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners.  Description of the problem: Some organisations, including Christian ministries, make conscious tradeoff decisions to accept a level of egocentricity, arrogance, callousness, or insensitivity in key employees because of the talents,...
Generating fake online reviews for the owner’s products or service

Generating fake online reviews for the owner’s products or service

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners. Word-of-mouth advertising has always been considered the best kind of advertising because it costs nothing and is one of the most trusted forms of marketing (Tan, 2015:Online). Description of the...
The Starting Point for Christian Ethics

The Starting Point for Christian Ethics

This post is part of the Bible and Business series on Christian ethics for Christian Business Owners. Ethics in Business Making correct ethical decisions matters for two reasons. First, when one allows small compromises to encroach into one’s ethics, those compromises will become larger and larger until...