Biblical entrepreneurship involves the moral obligation to be economically creative and productive. The principle of entrepreneurship is rooted in the dominion mandate and the biblical doctrines of work, stewardship, and fruitfulness. Biblical entrepreneurship incorporates principles of biblical patriarchy with its emphasis on multi-generational faithfulness, freedom in Christ, inheritance, jurisdiction, and the household as a vibrant, economically productive, God-ordained unit for cultural transformation. It is impossible to have a full-orbed vision of entrepreneurship without careful consideration for the Scriptural doctrine of the family. Any approach to entrepreneurship which is divorced of these considerations inevitably leads to the idolatries of materialism, individualism, and the love of money.

Christian entrepreneurship is purposeful. It involves the calling of men to live fruitful, productive, creative, problem-solving, dominion-oriented, kingdom-advancing, Lordship-loving lives. This is manifest as men advance their roles as fathers, reformers, leaders, servants, masters, and visionaries. Not all men will start independent businesses, but all Christians (both masters and servants, parents and children) should be entrepreneurially oriented as to their management, investment, and creative use of assets and resources. The Bible emphasizes that a sign of blessing on such men may include both physical and spiritual fruitfulness.

The first great reformation of Christian entrepreneurship took place with the Protestant Reformation. Reformers like Calvin and Luther emphasized biblical principles of economics, the doctrine of work, the relationship of the family to enterprise, and the necessity of the tithe to the advancement of the kingdom. The modern reformation of entrepreneurship seeks to build upon the best of the Reformers’ doctrines and to advance in the spirit of semper reformanda. Because the modern-day entrepreneurial reformation is the logical outgrowth of the present-day reformation of the Christian family along biblical principles of patriarchy, it is a movement of encouragement to all who love the law of God and who embrace the principle embodied in the following Scripture:

“But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is this day.” (Deuteronomy 8:18)