Would it shock you to know that Abraham was an entrepreneur? Or maybe Moses, or Nehemiah? Or even Paul?
When most people think of an entrepreneur, the first word that comes to mind is “business” and the next is making money. With this shallow of a definition, it is understandable that the two words- spiritual entrepreneur- seem an oxymoron. How can you be spiritual if you’re just out to make money?
The dictionary (Webster, in this case) actually defines an entrepreneur as someone who “organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.” What is an enterprise? Any project that is especially difficult, complicated or risky (Webster again).
Dreams are an enterprise. They are difficult, complicated, and risky. Think of the dreams you have deep in your heart. You may laugh at them in the daylight as harmless, puffy clouds, but at night they shake you to the core with the raw passion frothing from them. They scare you so much that you can barely even speak them aloud.
Why are some dreams so scary? Because they do not come from you. They are hot embers right out of God’s heart put into your heart. They are greater than you, threatening to consume you and burn you up if you let them out.
Abraham, Moses, Nehemiah, Paul, and other spiritual men, did exactly what a true entrepreneur would do, they took the ownership and the risks involved in this dangerous business of making God’s dreams come true. Read their stories. They took enormous risks and did staggeringly impossible things because they chose to turn God’s dream into their dream.
We have a chance to be spiritual entrepreneurs right now. Don’t think that God has exempted you from dreaming. Christians are the wildest dreamers of all, and God has put a fire in you.
What enterprise has God put on your heart? To be certain, God’s church has a corporate enterprise already underway, bringing people to the fellowship to see God as He truly is. That’s not the enterprise I mean. God is also calling you to be an entrepreneur in a very personal, unique way- a way no one else can duplicate.
Again, look at the men mentioned before. The master builder built these men for a one-of-a-kind enterprise, one never done before. Don’t discount them as “special” or “different” than you. Every spiritual enterprise is special, whether corporate or individual. Right now something tugs on your heart the way it tugs on no one else. This is your enterprise. It is from God.
It is time to open the door and let God’s dream out, and watch it flourish beyond your wildest imaginings. Embrace spiritual entrepreneurship and begin your great enterprise today.
