Billy Graham said one of the next great movements of God would be by believers in the marketplace. The men in this episode have spent twenty years proving he was right.
Bryan Dawson sits down with the team behind The Lions Den, a Birmingham event best described as a Christian "Shark Tank." Companies from Africa, Asia, South America and right here at home present their business case to a panel of successful Christian businessmen who grill them on profit, social impact, creation care, and the one most organizations skip: the spiritual bottom line.
This is the "trade, not aid" argument in practice. A bakery in a South African township that opened doors no missionary could open. A cheese factory and dairy in Moldova that grew from three employees to thirty and kept fathers from leaving the country to find work. A fried chicken chain, a bank and an IT company in Sierra Leone, the eighth poorest country on earth. A factory owner in China who says his ministry runs from eight to five.
"There are ten to twenty times more business owners than there are pastors. What's going to change America and the world is business owners stewarding their companies in a way that has impact."
TOPICS TACKLED:
Why the sacred and secular divide has convinced Christian businessmen they are second-class citizens
The quadruple bottom line: profit, social, spiritual, and creation care
"Trade, not aid," and why starting businesses beats shipping rice
Sierra Leone, Moldova, South Africa, China: what happens when a job replaces a handout
How to measure spiritual impact in a business without turning it into a sales pitch
Why pursuing the spiritual bottom line tends to produce the social one, and not the reverse
The Lions Den format, who should attend, and what happens at the Professional Summit
THE LIONS DEN, OCTOBER 14-16, BIRMINGHAM:
Tickets and details: https://www.thelionsden.us/tickets
Event listing: https://businessasmission.com/resources/the-lions-den/
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Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/1225717422?fl=pl&fe=sh
Venue: The Harbert Center, 2019 4th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203.
Schedule:
Wednesday, October 14: Professional Summit supper, 6:00 PM.
Thursday, October 15:
Professional Summit, approximately 8:00 to 4:00, with a luncheon featuring Peter Greer of HOPE International.
Main Lions Den event, 4:00 to 6:00.
Friday, October 16: accredited investor session, 8:00 to 12:00.
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