Business For The Glory Of God Summary

Grudem’s book Business for the Glory of God explores the business world, and how the characteristics of God can be found throughout business (2003). The book reveals the many aspects of business and ways God can be glorified through these activities: “ownership, productivity, employment, commercial transactions, profit, money, inequality of possessions, competition, borrowing and lending, attitudes of the heart, and the effect on world poverty” (Grudem, 2003, p. 12-13). Grudem attempts to prove that business is fundamentally good instead of the general thinking that business is characteristically found to have misconduct. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that the various aspects of business activities can produce morally good things, but also how business could be altered and become sinful. This paper incorporates a summary of the book, plus an analysis on a couple of ideas that was presented.
Chapter one talks about ownership, and

Leviticus 25:14 (NLT) states, “And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.” The Bible states that we should buy and sell from one another, which in turn would entail money and profit. Again, God’s attributes can be found in this process: "honesty, faithfulness to our commitments, fairness, and freedom of choice." (Grudem, 2003, p.37). By making a profit, one is increasing God’s resources. Money and profit provides opportunities to glorify God by providing to charity, giving to the church, and expanding our stewardship. However, if we only seek good for ourselves when buying and selling and making dealings with money and profit, our hearts can be filled with greed. Some sellers have such excessive prices that it robs the buyer. The seller’s profits become great, but the buyer’s money is depleted. This is evil in respect to business transactions, profit and