AIN Spiritual Impact Practices
At Ambassadors Impact Network (AIN), we are inspired by entrepreneurs whose desire is to show and share Jesus through their business. These individuals’ unique ability to integrate the demands of operating a company while winsomely advancing the gospel is instructive to our personal and professional lives, and we hope it might be for you as well. That is the motivation for this Spiritual Impact Practices Report.
Since 2018, AIN has sought to fund and encourage founders and management teams who demonstrate and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. Recognizing their varied spiritual giftings, passions, and contexts, we do not mandate an approach for gospel advancement. Instead, we ask entrepreneurs to share how they seek to make Jesus known across three areas of their business: their codified values, their business activities, and their products and/or services.
After reviewing nearly 400 requests for funding and investing $7 million across 19 different companies and funds, we began to see patterns emerge as to how God was working through these businesses. We also received requests from entrepreneurs for best practices and ideas on how to invite others to know Jesus through enterprise. So we asked each of our portfolio companies to answer the following questions about their organization’s values, activities, and products or services:
1. How do you incorporate biblical truth into the values of your company?
2. What activities do you undertake, internally or externally, that enable you to demonstrate or proclaim the gospel?
3. In what ways does your product or service demonstrate or proclaim the gospel, make disciples, or otherwise expand the kingdom of God?
What follows are the answers to these questions, lightly sanitized to protect the identity of the companies and entrepreneurs. Within each of the three areas noted above, we have further broken down the responses into eight topical categories to make them easier to digest and better enable you to find the practices that fit your context and passion. Our invitation is for you to explore and discern if God might be inviting you to implement some of these practices in your personal or professional life.
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