Every individual and organizational leader has the same challenge: how to produce value. Time, talent, treasure, and technology (T4) must be combined with wisdom and strategy to produce a product or service valued by others. Another way to express this is the following: the right people serving the right people by doing the right things the right way at the right time in the right place for the right reason. However you prefer to view it, individuals and organizations must have a worldview that guides them into successfully producing value. This means that success is rooted in a correct or sound worldview.
To be clear, a worldview is a way of understanding truth and reality. The starting point for self-awareness of your worldview is your theology. Anyone’s and everyone’s worldview begins with an assumption about God.
From a Christian worldview, there is only one true God. All other “gods of the peoples” are idols (Psalms 96:5 ESV). Because a Christian worldview is informed by Scripture, there is only one correct view of God. Jesus declared that he was the only way to relationship with the Father—the one true God (John 14:6). Therefore, there is one true or sound worldview—a Christian worldview.
Given a Christian worldview as the only sound worldview, then enduring individual and organizational success can only be achieved through the guidance of a Christian worldview. Scripture explains the apparent prosperity of the wicked as only momentary and as a setup for judgment (Psalms 73).
Furthermore, a Christian worldview is based on Scripture as historically understood by the orthodox Christian community, that is, a sound understanding of the Bible. Therefore, the predicate for producing value in the delivery of products and service must be principles based on a sound understanding of Bible.
Consequently, the Bible is the handbook for all of life. It is the starting point for all understanding and the essential foundation for all individual and organizational choices.
To live well, produce value, and be successful in the universe created by the God of the Bible, individuals and organizations must be governed by Scripture. There is no other way to live well in God’s universe. The foundation for all wise living is a sound view of the Creator— his character and nature, and humble submission to him. Any deviation from this standard will not produce value or success.
Organizationally, some refer to this way of management and leadership using the terminology “doing business God’s way.”
Here is your business tip. Wise organizational leaders will be regulated by the principles of the Bible. They will build organizations with stakeholders who are also so governed. Seeking to deliver value without a sound foundation in Scripture is folly and will not produce enduring success. True value can only be produced through faithful obedience to the principles that emanate from the Creator. This will produce true value and true success.
