Kingdom Principles: Business Ethics & Stewardship

Course Syllabus

Course Description

This course lays the foundation for every business you will build. Before writing a business plan, keeping a ledger, or marketing a product, we settle deeper questions: Why do we work? Who owns what we earn? How do we treat customers, workers, and vendors? What do we do with debt, offers that sound too good, and skills learned in harder seasons? You will study what Scripture teaches about work, wealth, integrity, fair dealing, keeping your word, generosity, rest, and calling, and finish by writing your own Kingdom Business Ethics Code and mission statement.

Faith Integration

Deuteronomy 8:18 reminds us that the power to get wealth comes from God. In this course we treat business as a calling and a trust. A Kingdom business is honest when no one is checking, fair to everyone it touches, generous with what it earns, and at rest in God's provision. Whatever your past, God can use your gifts to build something good.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Explain a biblical view of work and wealth, including Genesis 2:15 and Deuteronomy 8:18.
2. Distinguish stewardship from ownership and apply it to money, time, gifts, and a business.
3. Apply the principle of honest weights and measures to pricing, advertising, products, and records.
4. Describe fair dealing with customers, workers, and vendors.
5. Read a simple agreement for key terms and practice keeping your word.
6. Evaluate debt, plan generosity, and recognize scams and predatory schemes.
7. Redirect transferable skills from any past experience toward lawful enterprise.
8. Write a mission statement and a Kingdom Business Ethics Code that includes rest and boundaries.

Course Materials

• This student workbook
• A Bible (King James Version)
• Pen or pencil
• Printed sample agreements, ads, and offers from the instructor (no devices required)

Weekly Schedule

How You Will Be Graded

To pass this course: earn 70% or higher overall and attend at least 80% of sessions.

Classroom Covenant

• We begin and end each session in prayer. Participation in prayer is always welcome, never required.
• What is shared in class stays in class. We protect one another's stories.
• We speak with respect, listen without interrupting, and disagree with grace.
• We come prepared, do our own work, and ask for help when we need it.
• We follow all facility rules. Safety and security come first.
• We believe the best about one another and about what God can do.

Support & Accommodations

If reading, writing, vision, hearing, or any other need makes a part of this course harder, tell your instructor privately. Materials can be read aloud, enlarged, or completed orally. Missed sessions can be made up using the module pages. If you are transferred or released, your completed work stays on record and you can finish online.

Welcome

Welcome to the first course of the Christian Business & Entrepreneurship Certificate. Before you plan, keep books, or market anything, this course settles the heart of your business: who it belongs to, how it treats people, and what it is for. This companion walks beside you with a weekly reading, five devotions for the days between sessions, and a Quick Guide of Kingdom business principles to keep long after release.

How to Use This Companion

• Read the weekly reading after each class session. It takes about 10 minutes.
• Reflect on the questions. These are for you; you do not have to turn them in.
• Meet with God through the five daily devotions between sessions.
• Keep the Quick Guide at the end to carry home after release.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.— Psalm 119:105 (KJV)