Reframing Enterprise as a Structure of Love

Too often, business is viewed merely as a vehicle for profit—or worse, as inherently worldly. But business, rightly understood, is a structure of love. It is a God-given arena where human beings can live out the call to steward creation, love their neighbors, and glorify God.

From the very beginning, the triune God created humans with the capacity to produce, exchange, and sustain life through work. This is not incidental to His design. It is central. When we reframe business as Kingdom business, we no longer see it as secular labor, but as participation in God’s creative and redemptive mission.

Business becomes sacred when it is done in the Spirit—when it is ordered toward love. This is not a sentimental idea, but a theological one. Love, in the Kingdom of God, is structure. And business is one such structure.

Reflect on your work this week. Where is it marked by love? Where might it become more ordered toward the Kingdom?

-Jacob Sweeney