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The road to launching a successful business can be long and confusing. Where do you start? Should you rent office space or work out of your garage? Should you register as a for-profit or a nonprofit business? How should you handle legal issues that come up? What does it mean to be a “Christian” entrepreneur anyway?

Drawing from his work as a legal expert and business coach, Brock Shinen combines practical wisdom and a biblical worldview to help Christians turn their dreams and passions into viable businesses. This easy-to-use guide includes self-assessment tools that will walk you through four stages of starting and running a business:

Assess and clarify your dreams
Turn those dreams into an actionable plan
Implement and execute your vision
Grow your business while keeping your faith and character at the center

Be inspired and encouraged as The Christian Entrepreneur helps you through every stage of your journey.

From the Inside Flap

What if we could change the world–truly change it–and create a successful company in the process? What if our ideas could be excellent in terms of brilliance and purpose and also present amazing opportunities to profit?

Plenty of business owners believe you can operate a competitive, successful, marketplace-savvy enterprise and do so in a way that has God’s fingerprints all over it. The sad reality, however, is that if you want to own or operate a business that embodies godly dynamics and is highly successful, profitable, or simply excellent at what it does, only limited resources are available to show you how to get there. It’s also an area systematically misunderstood by the church because the church wasn’t designed to teach us competitive business practices.

That’s where I come in.

I’m fortunate to work with some of the best entrepreneurs, ministries, and organizations in the world, and the connection point for me is guiding them all toward prosperity in the context of healthy and godly business practices. A cornerstone of any lasting business is a good idea. Good ideas materialize from God because all good flows from Him.

Without God, I can do nothing, but with Him, I can accomplish anything.

You can too. That’s what we’re here to talk about.

–Brock Shinen|Brock Shinen is a lawyer and strategy consultant, a speaker, an author, and the founder of the Law Office of Brock Shinen, Inc., which represents some of the largest churches and ministry organizations in America. Brock is a highly sought-after business adviser and strategist to globally recognized organizations and ministries. His writing has been featured in publications such as the Huffington Post. Brock lives with his wife and two children in Orange County, California.

From the Back Cover

Set Up Your Business for Success

Most of us know that a great business starts with a good idea, but how do those good ideas really become successful businesses? Where should you start? How do you make decisions like determining if you should rent office space or work out of your garage? How should you handle legal issues that come up? And what does it mean to be a “Christian” entrepreneur anyway?

Drawing from his work as a legal expert and business coach, Brock Shinen is here to help aspiring entrepreneurs turn their ideas and passions into viable businesses. This easy-to-use guide includes self-assessment tools that will guide you through four critical stages of starting and running a business.

Learn to evaluate your ideas, create a viable business plan, form collaborative teams, and build a business that’s both meaningful and profitable.

“Brock has a unique ability to distill complex topics into simple, easy-to-implement steps, and his book for entrepreneurs is no exception. Brock takes a methodical, calculated approach to breaking down the timeline of a business’s origin, from idea through growth, and shares his war chest of tips, experience, and action steps.”–MILES MCPHERSON, author, speaker, and pastor

“Brock is a man of the law and a man of God with a rare gift as a strategist. If you have an idea for a new or existing business that you want to take to the next level, while carrying the heart of the Father–get this book.”–DAVID NOROÑA, cofounder and director of the studio division at Bethel Media and cofounder of Bethel Conservatory of the Arts

About the Author

Brock Shinen is a lawyer and strategy consultant, a speaker, an author, and the founder of the Law Office of Brock Shinen, Inc., which represents some of the largest churches and ministry organizations in America. Brock is a highly sought-after business adviser and strategist to globally recognized organizations and ministries. His writing has been featured in publications such as the Huffington Post. Brock lives with his wife and two children in Orange County, California.