Stanley Tam - God Owns My Business: They Said It Couldnt Be Done, But Formally and Legally...

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Dear Lord Jesus,

Right now I choose to go Your way.

Thank you, Jesus, for giving Your life for me. I repent and turn away from my sins. I accept Your forgiveness for my sins.

I ask You to come in and take over control of my life. I now receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for Your tremendous gift of everlasting life.

From now on I want to follow You. Help me to read Your Word and pray each day that I may live to bring honor to You.

Thank You for taking me into Your family.

I ask this in Your Name. Amen.

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God Owns My Business New Edition
ISBN: 978-1-60066-340-6
LOC Catalog Card Number: 2007943303
1969, 2013 by R. Stanley Tam

Previously published by Christian Publications, Inc.
First Christian Publications edition 1969
First WingSpread Publishers edition 2012

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To
Juanita

I wish to express my deep appreciation to Ken Anderson. I gave him a handful of rough silver coinsmy personal experiences. With his God-given skill, he polished them into readable script. Then with his keen spiritual insight, he joined them together with his practical theology and preached to me a great sermonNothing plus God equals God.

R. STANLEY TAM

R. STANLEY TAM

In over 47 years of business life I have found Christ to be the source of all my needs. Every time He takes me through a valley He brings me out stronger, wiser and more dependent upon Him. My love and devotion for Him grow each year. He gives me a purpose for which to live.

You cannot attach a more precarious tag to a mans name and reputation these days than to label him an outstanding Christian.

Disciples of our affluent image-making society promptly envision some kind of ecclesiastical oddity. Clergymen, to be sure, ought to be men of God. But for us laymen to seek the divine life is another matter. We should be dynamic in our communities. We should bolster the nations economy. We should build and scheme and flex our muscles. We ought to attend church and contribute to its material needs. But we are not to be men who pray, men who take the Bible at face value, men who witness.

I realize this is the day of the hippy, the draft card burner, the rioter, disciples of the Hindu ashram, but these abnormals run in packs and in their conformity to faddist noncomformity escape the disdain encountered by standing alone.

What a sorry state we are in!

Well, if being serious about ones faith is a social error, I plead guilty, but with neither remorse nor apology. It is being thought of as an oddity that unnerves me. Not from a matter of personal pride, however. Im upset about the whims of a society in which spiritual hunger and fulfillment seem to have become so abnormal.

Let me attempt an explanation.

My name is Stanley Tam. Im a layman, a businessman. By many marketplace measurements Ive succeeded in business. I like to sell, like to introduce new products, like to watch volume grow, like to make money. Recently the Dun and Bradstreet representative from our area went over our books and told me we had the most vigorous growth pattern of any comparable firm in our area. Right now Im giving careful thought to another of a succession of expansion moves in our two corporations.

But although my business requires long hours at the office and constant surveillance and promotion, buying and selling is really no more than an avocation with me. My first concern is to succeed as a Christian. Let me state that a bit more definitely. My prime effort in life is to be obedient to my God, to serve Him and bring credit to His name.

Yet I insist I am not purposely trying to be a nonconformist. Im not some overaged hippy, not an iconoclast, but a reasonably average human being.

Average?

Well, maybe I should strike that word from the recordnot so much as it pertains to me but as it relates to Gods potential for both you and me. For in the world as it is structured today, we should not settle for the spiritual plight of the average man.

I can understand the plight of being average in mentality or in physical endowmentsbecause I surely qualify in both categoriesbut I do not understand why so many Christians read a Bible abounding in promises to make them something beyond themselves and yet settle for a spiritual vitality so mediocre as to seem virtually nonexistent. Consequently, the Christian who becomes demonstrably involved with God is looked upon as the rare exception far above the established rule.

On the contrary, it is my conviction God intended the full, rewarding life to be every persons birthright. We deny ourselves Gods best for us by our own default, our impaired and often corroded sense of values. In Gods sight, I am convinced, the oddity is the man who misses His mark for him, and the norm is the man who discovers the Christian life in all its dynamic perspective.

Thats what Christianity isthe discovery of life!