At the end of the day, pastors and entrepreneurs aren’t that different. We’re doers, we’re builders, we’re leaders. We want the best for the people around us. But we also want to be the best. It’s not just strengths we share—our weaknesses match as well.

That’s why we have to rely on each other. It’s easy for pastors to overlook the value entrepreneurs bring to Christ’s church body or be intimidated by them. Just like it’s easy for entrepreneurs to hit resistance in the Church, to be frustrated by the slow pace and bureaucracy, to feel unwelcome, and to abandon the very group that wants to help them. 

We want to see more happening between entrepreneurs and pastors. Because, whether we like it or not, we need each other. Business will never replace the church, and the church will always need the help of business-minded people.

God’s mission is happening in both pews and cubicles—the church auditorium and the marketplace. And both spaces can learn from and help one another to better advance the work God is doing in and through his people.

Scripture references:

• And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. - Hebrews 10:24-25

• For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. - Romans 12:4-5

• Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. - Acts 2:46-47

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