The business world is a place where people’s goal is all about making money and earning
the profit. In other words, it is the world that the great fish eats the small and business people
sometimes have struggles between their benefits and their moral. Thus, as a Christian, one must
maintain his biblical worldview and ethic while practicing business. In the book Business for the
Glory of God, Wayne Grudem identifies methods which not only ease the tension but also take
advantages of both business and glorifying God. This book contains nine major parts of a
business, which includes their opportunities and risks to be experienced when doing business.
Two essential topics out of these nine, which involve any aspect of business as well as affect the
way Christian people glorify God, are money and inequality of possessions.
In each category, Grudem provides a clear introduction, a brief explanation of related
issues, strengths – weaknesses when applying them, and, undoubtedly, efficient approaches to
God’s glory. First nine chapters cover common problems that every merchant is dealing with:
ownership, productivity, employment, commercial transactions, profit, money, inequality of
possessions, competition, and borrowing and lending. In the last two chapters, while “Attitudes
of the heart” is an attempt at summarizing previous chapters; “Effect on World Poverty”
describes the source of poverty and offer methods to generate an idealism in the theoretical
approaches to solving issues of poverty and human rights abuses (Phillips, 2009, p. 406). Besides
making arguments about different aspects of business activity, Grudem states that when one
makes an effort to fulfill his working life with God’s words, he has a chance to get close to
characteristics that belongs to God: “wisdom, knowledge, beauty, creativity, love for others,
kindness, fairness, independence, freedom, exercise of will, blessedness (or joy), and so forth”
(20). The author gives his readers, especially who is in Christendom, a persuasive and honest
book that encourages them to believe that business is not only a non-evil thing to do but also an
important part of world poverty reduction strategy.
Grudem is quite successful in presenting relevant Bible quotes which support his
argument about business is put forward to be fundamental to both the Lord and His people.
Business is described as an activity of selling and buying something’s ownership to gain profit.
This activity is not an evil thing, but an incorrect usage may immediately lead one to sin.
According to the Bible, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the
Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord
as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving” (Colossians 3:23-24, NIV). This verse means
business, as its origin, is not a sin but a work that rewarded by God. Get back to Grudem’s book,
each chapter itself points out potentials and temptations of a business aspect that one may abuse.
For instance, when mentioning commercial transaction, this activity has been existing along with
human’s daily life since the society appeared. Leviticus 25:14 also says “If you sell land to any
of your people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other” (NIV). The Bible
