{"id":111,"date":"2012-03-26T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:27:26","slug":"audiobook-review-business-for-the-glory-of-god-by-wayne-grudem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Business for the Glory of God by Wayne Grudem"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/97816104539671.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"9781610453967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/97816104539671.jpg?resize=250%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/97816104539671.jpg?w=363&amp;ssl=1 363w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/97816104539671.jpg?resize=250%2C300&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Wayne Grudem is known for his book Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, a mainstay in many Bible college and seminary classrooms, and a hallmark of scholarly, yet clear biblical exegesis.\n<p>In Business for the Glory of God, he takes on the often controversial practices of ownership, profit, hiring, competition that characterize business.\u00a0 Are these practices unbiblical?\u00a0 Unloving?\u00a0 Unjust?\u00a0 Fundamentally they are not, Grudem argues.<\/p>\n<p>He does a good job of giving scriptural support for how each of these characteristics can and should be God-honoring.\u00a0 Each chapter follows a familiar pattern: introduction of the business practice (for example, hiring someone for a wage), gives the biblical support for this practice, and then talks about how the practice could be evil if mishandled, but isn\u2019t inherently evil.\u00a0 Actually this gets a little repetitive, and I would say this is a weakness of the book.<\/p>\n<p>The narration is well done.\u00a0 Also, the chapter on leveraging business to combat world poverty is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Please Note: This audiobook was gifted as a part of the christianaudio Reviewers Program in exchange for my unbiased review of this work. This has in no way influenced my opinion or review of this work.\u00a0 More information can be found about this and other Christian audiobooks at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/\">christianaudio.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Grudem is known for his book Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, a mainstay in many Bible college and seminary classrooms, and a hallmark of scholarly, yet clear biblical exegesis. In Business for the Glory of God, he takes on the often controversial practices of ownership, profit, hiring, competition that characterize business.\u00a0 Are&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=111\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Business for the Glory of God by Wayne Grudem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,12],"tags":[15,32,35,84,113,165,176],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-christianaudio-com","category-reviews","tag-52-books","tag-books","tag-business","tag-god","tag-leaders","tag-scripture","tag-social-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-1N","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}