Christian students with particular gifts in financial analysis or accounting skills should consider formally evidencing their abilities for career purposes with an MBA degree program.
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Christian MBA Program Helps Fulfill Christian Responsibilities
Christian students with particular gifts in financial analysis or accounting skills should consider formally evidencing their abilities for career purposes with an MBA degree program. The foundations for a career in management in the current world requires standard degree completion as part of the standard of practice for the profession,because through the education in that specialty one is introduced to the concepts that will conform to those standards. An MBA program can assist in enabling Christian practitioners to hold proficiency at the current professional levels expected. Beyond the academic and professional criteria come the spiritual implications for conducting a financialrelated ministry. Many business owners could greatly benefit from learning about business and investing concepts that may enhance or improve the operation of their enterprise, or permit them to properly evaluate opportunities in the capital markets. Many of these products will not be presented with Christian values in mind when trumpeted by secular advisors, nor will conflicts such practices have with traditional values be readily brought up from that source. It is the responsibility of financially aware Christians to be appropriately qualified to relate that professional level information and guidance to their peers, and to pursue a high standard in all of their business dealings.
A person desiring to launch a Christian financial career should also be interested in receiving input from past and present practitioners in the field. The ideal training environment to assist in this regard is found in a Christian degree program, where staff instructors and guest professionals can convey their own the approaches to delivering service and values. Many instructors will impress the students with their background and passion for the subject, thereby ensuring the student’s career begins with exposure to a positive Christian role model. The example set by school and staff standards will help in fluent the direction the graduate takes in fulfilling his or her own responsibilities when performing in the field. Christians also require an orientation that is built around the importance of service as the foundation for all lasting growth, not merely information about how to perform the service. This will insure the new professional will remember that the main issue is to deliver the skills and expertise, and not to merely make money for its own sake. Too many faith related business enterprises fail to escape the materialistic mindset created and fostered by secular finance. A well structured Christian MBA program should emphasize that financial services are made for man, and not man for the service. Once equipped with a responsibilityoriented Christian MBA education, formally completed with the standard degree expected in the finance, accounting, and management professions, a believer will be properly prepared to conduct his career in a manner that meets the financial and values needs of fellow Christians in business and investment. They will be better able to be stewards of the gifts God gave them in analyzing and managing money matters, and better able to enjoy their work in financial services as a holy and everlasting calling.