A company that builds companies
In our current age, we’ve experienced what appears to be death by a thousand cuts. The bureaucratization, secularization, and feminization of the workplace have lent modernity towards a bleak brutalism that’s made working a pain. Even the Christians who do realize that they should render their work to God feel defeated by the current economic stress that brings to reality the amount of options they have when it comes to doing something they love. For most, chasing your dreams is simply out of budget. Yet, we live in God’s world, and it’s a world that operates on foundational principles that are rooted in something outside of and greater than the market. Namely, Christ. This means that sowing, building, and creating all operate according to God’s Word. The farmer, within reason, can expect his crop to grow as long as he tends to it with care and understands that while he may plant and water, it’s God who provides the increase, to no power of his own. This then begs the question, why ought not other things work the same? And herein lies our core premise, because they do.
High-octane postmillennial craft
We believe that doing something hard, as in objectively hard, and creating something good, as in objectively good, is a worthwhile task. We believe that these things have value. Beauty sits among the transcendental as something that is good in itself, as it cannot sit alone, and something that is central to who God is. It’s good because God says it is. It’s valuable because God has bestowed upon it value. And teaching Christians to make something beautiful allows them to make something valuable, and to build upon that skill. And they can build upon it in reasonable ways, in approachable ways. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Beauty exists in the eye of God, and if we believe that, then beauty is something that can be learned, trained, and refined. Then by gathering Christians who have a commitment to higher things, you can teach them their craft, and then further teach them how to teach others.
Proper theology as infrastructure
As you’ve been reading along, you’ve probably noticed a pattern forming. The way we’re approaching business mirrors how the Church operates. Just as the excellence of the original American government was founded on the Presbyterian form of ecclesiastical order, we seek to apply the same principles to the vocational sphere. A work of translation is involved which requires careful thought, wise deliberation, and fervent prayer, but we believe that by obeying the principles that God has ordained for the world, we will excel in faithfulness, and in response, God will bless our work. These principles span across more than just governance, but must start with the structure of our building before furnishing it, and in like manner it will be filled with the Word of God.