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I became a Christian aged 15, and spent the next 15 years trying to decide whether it was true, and – if so – what did God want me to do? I’d always wanted to be in business, but my two pastors during that time disparaged such work as selfish, disobedient and worthless.
Towards the end of this period, I was fortunate to attend the 1989 conference where James Allcock delivered the inspirational paper on Christian Distinctives in Business. It was wholly transformational for me. Not only did he give a clear Christian rationale for business as a God-ordained human activity, but he articulated my concerns about the motivations and behaviour I’d observed in my career to date. This was profoundly encouraging, and I re-read his paper dozens of times in the years to follow.
