Infiltrate to Remediate: Part 3

In the modern era under a business ideology of profit driven capitalism, we are taught from the cradle to the grave to accumulate wealth at all costs. Our modern economic modelling is centred on competing for market share at the expense of others. If we can win more market share, we are doing well, despite putting others out of business, even the family we were sitting next to in church yesterday! Maximising self-interest at the expense of others. The survival of the fittest at the expense of the weak.?

This can only lead to financial hardship, domestic violence, poverty, homelessness, desperate measures such as crime, robbery, prostitution, sex-slavery and on into human trafficking and all manner of human suffering. Eventually it leads to social breakdown and revolutions. It is completely unsustainable and is the counterculture of the kingdom of God. It is a model driven by greed and self-centredness and it reflects the kingdom of the devil.

This is what we must infiltrate and remediate, and the Bible teaches us the model to follow; a culture of caring and sharing as the only road to universal prosperity, abundance, and human flourishing.

In the book of Ruth, Boaz was a wealthy landowner who made sure he left sufficient corn in his fields for the poorer people to glean off his enterprise. This allowed the poor people to collect enough to eat and have an overflow to provide “seed capital” from which to create their own enterprise. As a result, the region of Bethlehem prospered during a time of international famine, and Boaz became a “mighty man of wealth.”

Every industry and sector today is dominated by greed and corruption, which is no surprise because our current economic model follows the kingdom of the devil. For example, the following industries are in urgent need of remediation: banking, law, government, pharmaceuticals / health care, and mining.

So, God puts righteous people into these unrighteous sectors to fix them.

Tomorrow I will share a personal example of the “Infiltrate to Remediate” strategy that my company has outworked on a macro-level.?

** Dave Hodgson is the founder of Kingdom Initiatives, a worldwide marketplace ministry that has taught millions of businesspeople how to apply biblical principles in the marketplace.