In days of old, your ‘house’ wasn’t just a building. And it wasn’t just you, your spouse, your parents, your children.

It was all of those things, to be sure. But it was also your employees, your community, your legacy…

Today we live in a crazy world where an overwhelming number of voices shout at you. That various life parts exist in separate silos:
– work and life things
– church and state things
– public and private things

The word “economy” comes from root words meaning “house rule” or “house law.” In the beginning it wasn’t me, at my address, with my wife and kids.

It was a community affair. A community responsibility. And in fancy philosophical words, a deontological way of thinking that saw theology and economy, God and community, governance of country and company and family as guided by Truth, capital T.

Now we live in a world of information is multiplying at a dizzying speed. A growing percentage of us believe that truth is relative…about 75%. Yet 95% of us acknowledge the existence of God. And we get stoned so we don’t have to explain that non-sequitur.

And who do you trust? It’s not Democrats vs. Republicans anymore. They’re all liars. Advertising is at an all time low in effectiveness as one measure of how much we trust business.

And the Bible is nice. Christians are nice. But how is that relevant to my life in the marketplace? In the “real” world? The Bible can’t help me buy a car, can it?

Can it?