Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. President Calvin Coolidge once said that the

business of America is business. Too many Christians think of business as either inherently bad,

as immoral, or perhaps immoral, something that's completely set apart from their faith altogether.

At best, it pays the bill, maybe supports missionaries, but many fail to see how business is also under

the lordship of Jesus Christ.

Recently, at the Colson Center National Conference, Colson Center C.O. Pete Mara challenged a group of business leaders to rethink

business, according to a Christian worldview, especially in light of emerging cultural challenges.

Here's Pete Mara. I believe there's one thing that changes the world, and that's the church.

There is no plan B. There's no alternative to that. It's the church.

But I also believe that there's something that is equally under it. So not exactly equal,

but like equal and under. And I would say that is enterprise. Enterprise being business.

What we have at our disposal through business, the ability to organize, to solve problems, to create value, to deploy capital, to steward the things that God has given us, is something that's very unique to enterprise itself. So with that kind of framework, I want to, again, thank you for being here. And I want to talk a

little bit about calling and think about place. There's a reason that we use the idea that you are here.

And this can't be missed on us in this cultural moment, particularly as business leaders, leaders of

enterprises, that you were brought to a time and

place that God has called you to and God has brought you to and it's now. It's not an accident.

I believe not only has God brought you to this place and called you to this space, but he's

equipped you for it. But there's something that's happening inside the world that we're speaking to

in theological spaces

and philosophers and some politicians and business leaders are talking about it and that's the age

of AI. But AI is just, I call it a new tool for a bigger problem. And the bigger problem

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