Righteousness is right standing with God that is evidenced by your
right treatment of people, animals, plants, and the planet. Righteousness
is not related to your religious or non-religious beliefs: it is predicated
solely on what you actually do and why you do it—your external behavior judged by your internal motives
for your behavior—not what you say you believe, or the reasons you give to justify
why you believe what you believe.
The
financial destiny of a Virtuous Entrepreneur is to become wealthy enough to
make a tremendous positive impact on the lives of people and to exercise
economic power that promotes economic justice and benefits people by liberating them, such that the world becomes
a better place to live for the many who are the have-nots, and not just for
the few who are the haves.
Righteousness
is urgent because those who gain
wealth have an obligation to function from right motives in order
to reach right ends that benefit society at large. To gain wealth solely to
subjugate others is a misappropriation of the gift of wealth and a crime against
humanity.
It
is not money or wealth that is sinful: it is the selfish love of money or
wealth that causes unrighteous people to write laws that oppress and diminish
people, despoil the planet for profit, and reap unjust gain in the process.
As
you enter the economic world of entrepreneurship, you have a decision to make.
Will you decide to follow the narrow path of righteousness as a Virtuous
Entrepreneur, or will you take the wide road of unrighteousness with the greedy
and unscrupulous? You can become part of the world’s problem or part of the
world’s solution. Which way will you choose?
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