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Business for All Seasons is a gift to the global church. Mats Tunehag has once again brought remarkable clarity, theological depth, and practical wisdom to the conversation about business as a redemptive calling.
With the skill of a storyteller and the conviction of a seasoned practitioner, he reminds us that business—done God’s way—creates dignity, restores broken places, strengthens families, and advances the Kingdom across generations.
This short book carries enormous weight. It will challenge your assumptions, elevate your imagination, and call you into God’s mission in the marketplace with fresh courage. I highly recommend it.
Don Simmons, Author, The Steward Investor
Introduction:
Business for All Seasons is a small book with a large ambition: to help Christians think more clearly and act more courageously in the marketplace. It gathers twenty short chapters* all circling the same conviction: business and investing are not side activities to “real” ministry, but central avenues through which God restores people, and transform communities and nations.
The title nods to A Man for All Seasons, the story of Sir Thomas More, who chose faithfulness to conscience over comfort, reputation, and even his life. In a different arena, men and women in business face their own pressures: to separate faith from work, to chase profit without purpose, or to accept broken systems as inevitable. This book is written for those who want to follow God in boardrooms, shop floors, farms, and investment committees, even when that is costly.
It also echoes Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness. Business, like nature, moves through springtimes of vision and start-up energy, summers of growth, autumns of transition and harvest, and winters of pruning, disappointment, or waiting. Yet the seasons are not neatly separated; they overlap and interact. Through them all, God’s faithfulness does not change. “Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest… join with all nature in manifold witness to Thy great faithfulness.” These pages invite you to see your work and investments in that larger, steady light.
You will not find a technical manual on portfolio construction or a step-by-step guide to starting a company. Instead, each chapter offers a theological lens, a story, or a set of questions that can reshape how you view capital, risk, success, and calling. We will look at themes like tikkun olam—repairing a broken world with God; wealth creation as a holy calling; investing for generations rather than quarters; how business can confront human trafficking instead of profiting from exploitation; and why there is no biblical “pyramid” that makes pastors more spiritual than entrepreneurs or investors.
Throughout the book runs the language of four bottom lines. Business as Mission seeks holistic impact—financial, social, environmental, and spiritual—because the Kingdom of God touches every dimension of life. Like the four seasons, these bottom lines are distinct yet inseparable. Sound investments can create dignifying jobs, protect creation, strengthen families, and open space for the good news of Jesus to be both seen and heard.
Whether you are an investor, entrepreneur, pastor, student, or simply someone wondering how your work fits into God’s purposes, my hope is that this book will do three things: affirm that your place in the marketplace truly matters to God; stretch your imagination for what faithful business can do in the world; and encourage you to keep going—through all the seasons—with integrity, courage, and joy.
These are not final answers but invitations into ongoing conversations and practice. My prayer is that as you read and reflect, you will hear God’s call afresh to steward your time, talents, and treasures for the good of people and the glory of God—becoming, in your own sphere, a “business person for all seasons.”
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Content:
Introduction
- On a Tikkun Olam Mission
- Investing for Generations to Come
- Human Trafficking Is Profitable. Why Not Pursue It?
- Investing & the Pyramid of Christ
- Celebrating 1700 Years of Business and Investing as Mission
- Investing, Charity & Justice
- Investing & Default Mode
- What Shall We Call It?
- Business Can Transform the World
- The Genesis of Business With a Mission Is In Genesis
- Jesus – An Integral Part of Our Value Proposition
- The Immediate, the Generational, and the Eternal
- God Restores the Marketplace
- Serve People and Trust God for Impact
- Investing for Holistic Transformation
- How Do We Define Success?
- Private Property, Ownership and the Poor
- Not From the West to the Rest!
- Business & Wealth, Sins & Virtues
- What Are Your Thoughts?
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