Is your business financially profitable?
你的企业在财务上是否有盈利？
Give examples of how your business uses its profit in the following areas:
举例说明你企业的利润如何使用在以下领域：盈 利的目的
活 动 % Examples 举例
Take a moment to reflect on the largest donation you have ever made.
花点时间回想一下你有史以来最大的一笔捐款。
T Warren Buffet reportedly pledged the largest single donation in history when he gave $37 Billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. After receiving the inaugural Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy he is quoted as saying:
Reflection 反 思
Teaching 教 导
开支, 保存, 分享, 播种,
据报道，历史上最大的一笔一次性捐款是沃伦·巴菲特向比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会捐赠的 370 亿美元。在福布斯 400 慈善终身成就奖的颁奖典礼上，他说：
Warren Buffet 沃伦·巴 菲特
“The truth is I have never given a penny away that had any utility to me,” Buffett told the 150-plus billionaires and near billionaires, who gathered at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room. “I am very grateful for this award, I accept this award. But I’d like to accept it not only for myself but for those millions of people who really give away money that’s important to them because they see somebody else where they think they can do more good.”
“事实上我从来没有捐出过对我有用的任何一分钱。”巴菲特告诉聚集在联合国代表餐厅的 150 多位亿万富翁和接近亿万富翁者。“我非常感谢这个奖，我接受这个奖。但我接受它不仅仅是为我自己，而是为那成千上万的因为看到别人而觉得自己可以做得更好的，捐出对他们很重要的金钱的人。”
Reflection 反 思
How much did your ‘largest donation’ really cost you?
你的“最大捐款”实际上让你付出了多少？
A Kingdom Business needs a mature attitude to the use of money. God challenges us to honour Him with our profit and steward our money wisely. He wants joyful givers who honour Him with their profits.
国度企业需要对金钱的使用有成熟的态度。上帝挑战我们用我们的盈利来荣耀祂，并明智地管理我们的金钱。祂想要的是用他们的盈利来荣耀祂的快乐捐献者。
‘Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, “How are we robbing you?” In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse – your whole nation – because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,’ says the Lord Almighty.
人岂可夺取神之物呢，你们竟夺取我的供物。你们却说：“我们在何事上夺取祢的供物呢？”就是你们在当纳的十分之一和当献的供物上。因你们通国的人都夺取我的供物，咒诅就临到你们身上。万军之耶和华说：你们要将当纳的十分之一全然送入仓库，使我家有粮，以此试试我，是否为你们敞开天上的窗户，倾福与你们，甚至无处可容。万军之耶和华说：我必为你们斥责蝗虫（原文是吞噬者），不容它毁坏你们的土产。你们田间的葡萄树在未熟之先也不掉果子。万军之耶和华说：万国必称你们为有福的，因你们的地必成为喜乐之地。
Malachi玛拉基书3:8-12
What is God asking us to test Him in?
上帝要我们用什么考验祂？
Discussion 讨 论
What does God promise the three outcomes will be if we test Him in this? Reflect on how they directly address common business concerns.
如果我们在这方面考验祂，上帝应许哪三个结果？思考这三个应许是如何直接解决经商中常见的顾虑的。
What does the passage say is the long term outcome of this behaviour?
这段经文表明这种行为的长期结果是什么？
When a Kingdom Business tithes, it has the opportunity to channel significant amounts of money to good causes through what we call ‘Power Giving’. This is illustrated below.
当国度企业缴纳十一奉献，它就有机会通过被我们称为“有力的奉献”的方式，将大量资金用于善事。如下图所示。
Power Giving
Has your business made a commitment to ‘Power Giving’? Discuss how this approach might have a positive impact on both society and the ministries of the Church.
你的企业是否承诺过做“有力的奉献”？讨论这样做会对社会和教会的事工产生怎样的积极影响。

Finally, and perhaps most significantly, the passage in Malachi promises that those who honour God through these actions will be recognised as blessed and distinct, creating the foundation for a Christian witness both at home and abroad. Malachi 3:18 says; ‘And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.’ Ultimately, this approach to the use of profit brings a blessing to all nations, ‘until there is no more need’.
最后或许也是最重要的一点，玛拉基书的经文应许那些通过这样的行为尊崇上帝的人，将被人们视为有福和不同的人，为基督徒在本地和万国做见证奠定了基础。玛拉基书 3:18 说：“将善人和恶人，事奉神的和不事奉神的，分别出来。”最终，这种使用盈利的方法为万国带来祝福，“直到不再有需要”。
Teaching 教 导
有力的奉献, 我的企业, 我的家庭, 薪金, 捐赠 我的教会, 事工, 十一奉献, 捐赠,
‘You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”’
我这两只手常供给我和同人的需用，这是你们自己知道的。我凡事给你们作榜样，叫你们知道应当这样劳苦，扶助软弱的人，又当记念主耶稣的话，说：“施比受更为有福。”
Acts使徒行传20:34-35. Mark马可福音8:36
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
人就是赚得全世界，赔上自己的生命，有什么益处呢？
To be effective in doing business as a ministry, the use of money must be right. It requires correct priorities. Above all, we must guard our souls. When we pursue good works and a God-given higher purpose before profit, we will achieve meaningful and lasting impact. The profits will likely follow. This approach and priority are essential if we are to do business as a ministry.
为了有效地将商业经营做为事工，金钱的使用必须正确，它需要正确的优先次序。首先，我们必须守护我们的灵魂。当我们把追求做善工和上帝赋予的更高的使命放在获利之先时，我们将取得有意义和持久的影响，而利润则可能随之而来。如果我们要将商业经营做为事工，这种做法和优先次序是必须的。
When we have mastered our attitude to the money we will be ready to pursue profit through purpose.
当我们掌握了我们对金钱的态度后，我们就准备好了
透过使命来盈利。
Close the session with a short time of prayer. Ask God to help you master money and help your company’s purpose so that it profits through good works.
短暂祷告后结束会议。祈求上帝帮助你掌控金钱，并赐使命给你的公司，使你的公司能透过做善工来盈利。