In this section, Windahl tells the story of his prior business failures to set the stage for how he saw God giving him clear purpose for his work going forward. The first section of the book is called “Partnering with God” and contains three chapters: God is Creative, Purpose Comes from God, and Finding Your Place in God’s Story. God can help your business, but He expects you to do your part.You can advance God’s Kingdom even as you become a business success.Your business has to put God first and focus around loving your neighbor.God always has to be at the center of everything we do (there is no division between the spiritual and secular).Windahl makes several foundational points including: Launch with God starts with an introductory chapter that sets the stage for everything that follows. Launch with God feels very much like Windahl sharing with a friend the exhilaration of launching a business and the challenges of walking through periods of disappointment and failure, as he guides his friend in what he must do to launch his own company. The Christian Entrepreneur feels very much like an attempt to take the wisdom that Shinen shares with his advisory clients and turn that into a book. In his book, he tells of several businesses he tried (and failed) to launch before successfully launching his current company, The Brand Sunday. Zach Windahl is about 20 years younger than Shinen. As far as I can tell, he’s only started one business himself, and that is his law firm, but he has advised many clients who have started successful and unsuccessful businesses. This review is about the later (you can read my review of the former here), but I think it’s helpful to contrast the two books.īrock Shinen is an experienced professional. I’ve just finished reading two books that seem, at least on the surface, to be similar in content and goal: The Christian Entrepreneur by Brock Shinen and Launch with God by Zach Windahl. You may not completely agree with Windahl on every theological point (I don’t) but his honest and humble wrestling with how his faith intersects with his startup ambitions seems to strike the right balance of being serious about his faith without coming across as preachy. While the book doesn’t provide detailed step-by-step instructions for everything involved in launching a business, it provides insights that can guide the heart and the mind to approach all the necessary steps with true wisdom. When To Use It: I think Launch with God can be a great encouragement to any Christian entrepreneur or any believer who dreams of someday launching their own business. Even more, by humbly sharing his own stumbles, Windahl helps us understand how to fully integrate our faith into the struggles and the triumphs that lie ahead. Although the book has a light, breezy feel to it, it includes practical guidance on how to approach each of these phases of launching and growing a business. If that’s you, the pages ahead will provide you with a framework to launch a profitable business that matters.” That framework is presented in five parts: Partnering with God, Preparing for the Wilderness, Creating Your Big Idea, Ready for Launch, and Living with Purpose. In the Introduction, he describes Launch with God this way: “this is a book for people who feel their God-given purpose is in entrepreneurship. Only then did Windahl see the opportunity that was in front of him, and the purpose that he felt God was calling him to. When he’d hit rock bottom, he turned back to God, putting Him first in everything. His first few businesses were failures, but his latest, The Brand Sunday, is a success. Title: Launch with God: How to Build a Business That Matters and Live out Your God-Given Purpose Author: Zach Windahl Published: 2021 by The Brand Sunday What It Teaches: Zach Windahl is a young entrepreneur. How to Build a Business That Matters and Live Out Your God-Given Purpose Brief Summary
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