CBMC Forums - Overview

Many business owners feel they are going it alone. Downsizing. Hiring. Equal opportunity issues. Partnerships gone sour. Involvement of family. Cash flow. Cutting corners to survive. Debt. Finding good employees. Competition. Profits. Losses. Threat of Chapter 11. These are issues confronting the business owner. In today's marketplace, the Christian business owner wrestles with tough moral and ethical issues.

The Need

While your primary spiritual resources are the Word of God, the Holy Spirit and the local church, a Christian running a company very much needs, but may lack, the counsel of fellow executives. What is needed is the counsel of peers—a "friendly Board of Directors"— who are key decision makers within their own companies. Together you can pray, search the scriptures, seek wise counsel and solve problems in a manner appropriate for the Christian so that God is glorified through your business endeavors.

The Solution

What is required is a group of peers who not only solve difficult business issues, but assist each other in making the right decisions that will ultimately glorify God through their lives and businesses. A CBMCFORUM is a part of the process of discipleship that will encourage evangelism, using your business and your marketplace as a platform. A CBMCFORUM can help you affect the lives of employees, suppliers, customers and competitors as you seek to:

• Connect with other peer Christian owners who share similar business responsibilities. You discuss issues, present ideas, search scriptures for guidance and receive Godly counsel for spiritual growth and practical biblical application to business problems
• Gain accountability that Christians in the business world need. Such a reference point helps you match your business policies and actions to your commitment to God and His word
• Find a larger network of peers beyond the CBMCFORUM group and support of resources and materials designed for evangelism and discipleship in the marketplace
• Store up treasures in heaven as you earn a profit on earth

The Bottom Line

It's in the CBMCFORUM that peers can ask each other a question that would be out of context to most of the business world.

Would Jesus Christ be pleased with the way you do business?