Henry Kaestner - Faith Driven Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Step Into Your Purpose and Pursue Your God-Given Call to Create

As an entrepreneur who feels deeply called to the marketplace, I am grateful for the experience and wisdom shared in this book around generosity, identity, and the unique challenges and opportunities of using business as a way to bring justice, equality, mercy, and dignity to earth as it is in heaven.

LIZ FORKIN BOHANNON

Cofounder and CEO of Sseko Designs and author of Beginners Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now

I was very sincere in my intent to create a faith-driven company but the outcome was lukewarm at best. I know had I read Faith Driven Entrepreneur I would have, with new knowledge, fully accomplished my vision. This is a must-read for the believing entrepreneur!

HORST SCHULZE

Former president of the Ritz-Carlton

Christians know that their work is a part of their worship. But the how hasnt always been as clear. Faith Driven Entrepreneur will give you practical, actionable ways to build on your faith and integrate it into how you lead, launch, and grow your business.

SANYIN SIANG

Leadership coach, executive director of the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics at Duke University, and author of The Launch Book

Faith-driven entrepreneurship is an ancient-future proposition. From the time Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived as entrepreneurs on a faith adventure up to the present era, it has been a historical norm for God to work with people in the midst of the marketplace. Our world is groaning for the gospel, and business leaders following Jesus are poised for radical impact. This book needs to be read by every Christian businessperson, student, investor, and pastor. Lets go!

MIKE SHARROW

CEO of C12 Group

The top can be a lonely place, but Faith Driven Entrepreneur is a reminder that there are cofounders and CEOs all around the world working to faithfully serve God in the way they lead their businesses. Im striving to be one of those leaders, and I invite anyone who reads this book to join me.

ANTHONY TAN

CEO of Grab

There are so many entrepreneurs in the world who havent yet experienced the joy, freedom, and missional possibility of deeply connecting their work to their faith. Henry has pursued and lived out this integrated life and is now on a mission with J. D. and Chip to help thousands more through this book. Read it and you will no doubt be encouraged in your own journey.

DAVE BLANCHARD

Cofounder and CEO of Praxis

In 2008 in Charlotte, North Carolina, I felt very alone and very unsure of how to start a bank that sought to love God and love people. In Faith Driven Entrepreneur, Henry, J. D., and Chip do a wonderful job describing how God is moving around the globe. Entrepreneurship is the key to unleashing the next generation of Christ followers who are seeking to love God and love people. In this book, youll find out why and how. My only complaint is that it was not available to guide me on my journey a decade ago!

CASEY CRAWFORD

CEO of Movement Mortgage

If you feel that starting a business cant be a part of Gods plan for your life, think again. Faith Driven Entrepreneur is a book by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs that invites all business owners from the billion-dollar company to the street-corner store to be a part of Gods witness on earth.

DR. BRIAN FIKKERT

Founder and president of the Chalmers Center at Covenant College and coauthor of When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself

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What does it mean to be a Faith Driven Entrepreneur?

What does it mean to be a Faith Driven person... really?

These are questions I find myself asking often. This book has helped me move toward answers.

Its written for Christian entrepreneurs, yes, but theres something about that phrase Faith Driven that makes me think.

Christian makes a phenomenal noun but a subpar adjective. Because when you say I am a Christian, youre saying a lot about who you are, right? Youre saying that you stand for Jesus and that youre a follower of his. So often, though, that word Christian has a loose meaning.

If I told you I was a Christian plumber, what exactly does that mean? Id like to imagine that a Christian plumber is someone you instantly knew operated with quality, excellence, integrity, timeliness, and many other virtues. That would be awesome if whatever came after the adjective Christian meant that. But oftentimes it doesnt.

This book is helping us redefine the idea of excellence by giving us a different frame. Were Faith Driven.

What does that mean? First and foremost, it says that my faith in Jesus Christ drives the way I work and live. It says that Im here to create quality work. It says that Im here to do the work that God has put in my hands to the best of my ability because I believe that he oversees everything I do, and my work, my time, my energy all things that belong to and come from him are tools to serve him well.

Its so easy to take those things and use them to glorify ourselves, though. Oftentimes we find ourselves fighting to keep up the image, fighting to keep up the persona of all the things that a Christian leader is supposed to be. And what ends up happening is that theres too much shame to be vulnerable and transparent about the areas where we are not succeeding and not winning because there are so many expectations on us.

When youre performing for acceptance, thats religiosity to the core. Thats not faith.

Faith is when you can be honest and transparent and say, God, I dont have what it takes. I need you to do it. Ive chronicled my own journey of coming to the conclusion that I was more devoted to my devotion to God than I was devoted to his devotion to me. Its easy to get that backward, especially as an entrepreneur when youre the one who is constantly on the pedestal. Youre the one everyone is looking at.