My wife and I have three kids and each time my wife gave birth, it hurt me a lot. Seriously. Ok, maybe not as much as it hurt her. But watching her hurt, I wanted to help somehow.

Respect is a word we throw around pretty loosely. Reality is it is one of the most powerful values a Christian entrepreneur can possess because it speaks to the heart of a person. Frankly, it flows from your heart to his. You can’t fake respect. At its core it demands consistency and authenticity.

FiveTwo is looking to launch 10,000 Christian Entrepreneurs by 2044. Which is a big number. Which means we need to get busy.

“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” –Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Four years ago, as I was sitting at the O2 Conference (then called the wiki conference), I was struck as speaker and founder of FiveTwo, Bill Woolsey spoke about baptisms.

When we teach the Business Model Canvas process in our incubator, we stress how the “Partners” box is one of the three most important boxes. Why? Because we believe in the power of team, because we believe your cause ought to be bigger than just you, and because your Kingdom impact is multiplied when you partner with others outside of your organization.

Just how different are the answers to these two questions: Who are you? And, What do you do?

hen we think of Christian entrepreneurs going forth and achieving great things for God’s Kingdom, bookkeeping is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. However, it doesn’t take long for a leader to discover how important it is to have reliable, accurate financial information to be a good steward of what God has provided.