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Can Christian Business Women be “Tough”?
By | September 4, 2008
For some reason there, some people hold the mistaken impression that being a Christian business woman means you can’t be tough enough to do the work you’re supposed to do in life. While this is an idea without basis, it needs to be discussed in order to give many business women the confidence needed to pursue their work withouth feeling that she is doing something wrong.
Take the prosperous business woman, Lydia:
“Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.’ And she constrained us” (Acts 16:14-15).
Obviously, Lydia was a tough business woman with a business that had employees and was making money. The Bible doesn’t say if she was married or not. That’s not relevant in this case. What it does indicate that she had control of her business and her household. What she said was what happened. In order to run things smoothly, she had to make decisions. Surely, some of them were the same type of tough decisions business people make today.
You will find Christian business women in corporate business offices and running their own businesses. Some have multi-million dollar firms. If you know you are called to run a business, get out there and get going. Don’t deny your call. The world needs your business and only you can do the particular business that lays on your heart.
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