If you find yourself stuck and hitting a Wall, I encourage you to explore the Road Ahead on the Houston campus of Fuller Seminary. There is an entrepreneurial path forward. It involves knowing your true value and worth. It involves empathy and imagination. And it involves Risk. May new entrepreneurial initiatives spring up from your reflections on entrepreneurial vocation.

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Today we talk about value and its role in forming entrepreneurs with capacity, capability, and competency:

1. LUKE 14:25-35

2. A SELF-INVENTORY OF VALUE & WORTH

3.  THREE CLOSING PRINCIPLES:

1. Without value, we cannot become disciples, because we cannot count the cost.

2. When we understand value, we become worth our own weight in salt.

3. Weighty people make solid disciples.

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Today we talk about entrepreneurial vocation and the experience of being “stuck” or “hitting a wall” as a necessary path towards spiritual growth. We will refer to the following diagrams found here: https://www.oikonomiks.com/a-spiritual-toolkit#critical-journey

Also: if you are interested in finding out more about the Road Ahead cohort, see here: https://depree.org/cohorts/roadahead/

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Today we talk about work and the preferential option for the poor along two headings:

1. WORK for the POOR

2. WORKING for the POOR

followed by 3 principles:

1. The poor come first.

2. The best way to serve the poor is to create wealth.

3. Therefore, the pursuit of wealth is appropriate and reasonable if the primary motivation is to serve the poor.

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Today we talk about the “WALK and DEAD” and an alternative economics of the kingdom along two headings:

1. Getting the kingRICHdom

2. The Economics of the Kingdom

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Today we talk about Paul’s vision of the summing up of all things in Christ in Ephesians 1:10. It shows us that our work can matter at a cosmic level in this “administration of the mystery.”

1. The Scope of Work

2. The Administration of Work

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Today we talk about Gnosticism, Agent Smith squeezing codes out of Morpheus, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Leaf. All to say that there is hope for work. Hope for something on the other side of the Wall.

1. The Futility of Work

2. The Hope of Work

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Jim Manney teaches the Ignatian Prayer of Examen, a vital tool in vocational self-awareness. Without self-awareness and the ability to see God’s manifold graces to us, we are apt to fall into what Ignatius considered the deadliest of all sins: ingratitude.

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Jim Manney teaches the Ignatian Prayer of Examen, a vital tool in vocational self-awareness. Without self-awareness and the ability to discern our own desires we are liable to become not only unhealthy, but unsafe for spiritual leadership. The Prayer of Examen is an important tool for honesty and clarity.

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin

Ministry is the unpredictable plant. Therefore, the formation of the minister is just as important as the ministry itself. God is interested not only in Nineveh’s salvation, but Jonah’s as well. “Do you have good reason to be angry?…”

Music credits: Aleksey Chistilin