Wayne Grudem’s Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business analyzes a myriad of misconstrued facets of business and how these facets are rather intended and are able to be implemented as acts that glorify God. Primarily, these various components of business carry negative connotations, because, it seems, more often than not that businesses fall into corruption and scandal due to greed and lust. Grudem does an exceptional job in explaining that it is not the concepts of business themselves, such as money or owning multiple possessions, that are evil, but rather the acts of coveting, idolizing, or being wicked stewards of money or possessions. In business, Grudem articulates, the main position supported …show more content…
God did not create us with an innate need for material things, but he did create us with an innate need for services or to work. Working or providing services to others is a way to glorify God in the fact that it benefits other human beings in ways that they are unable to produce or do something themselves. Before the first sin and the fall of creation God had intended for man to work in the garden of Eden (Genesis 2:15). For many people the word work or service carries a negative connotation, because it involves completing an undesirable task or exerting gratuitous energy. God’s intention for work is just the opposite of that negative connotation. In fact, as the author of Ecclesiastes puts it in 3:13, “…also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil- this is God’s gift to man.” Not only did God intend work or providing services to be a good thing for humans to do, but He also created it as a gift for us to glorify Him and care for others. As Grudem says in his book, Business for the Glory of God, God created work and services as a way of imitating Him in creativity and wisdom. The need for the services of others is supported by Ecclesiastes 4: 9. Two are better than one, because they are able to accomplish more by providing services for one another, which the other is unable to complete. Services are a way to glorify God and they are something to take delight in doing, because they glorify the creator. While I do disagree with Grudem that God created humans with a need for material things, I do agree that humans were created with the need for services of other people and to complete services for