No matter what you do for a living, you can use your workplace to further God’s Kingdom by using your business contacts to spread the Gospel and bring glory to God. As a child of God, you are the light of the world and you need to let your light radiate wherever you may find yourself in life. There is a story of a German who was the President and CEO of a major international company. Upon being born again after an invitation to a Full Gospel Business Men fellowship International meeting, he went to see his pastor and asked if he should resign and enter into ministry full time. The pastor said, “No way! Let me show you how to use your job for the kingdom, how to be a Kingdom builder and not just a wealth builder.
Do you have an executive team?” He said yes and that there were six of them and two of them were also Christians. The pastor said, “Start meeting with those two and praying for the other three. Your first ministry is to win your three coworkers to Christ. Start praying for them. Be available to them. Establish good Christian principles in your business.” Do you want to influence other CEOs? Then you need to stay a CEO because you will have far more influence on them as a CEO than as a pastor or missionary. In today’s global economy, the new missionaries are businessmen and businesswomen.
Many countries will not let a pastor or missionary in, but they will gladly welcome your business. When you use your business for the one thing that is going to outlast everything else—the Kingdom of God—you are being a Kingdom builder and not just a wealth builder. There is nothing wrong with using your work to build wealth. But Jesus said in Matthew 6:20, “Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven” (NIV). The only way you can invest in heaven is to invest in people who are going there. When your work point’s people to God, you are storing up treasure in heaven to use for eternity and you are advancing God’s Kingdom