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God, the Entrepreneur

Is God the first and greatest entrepreneur?

Here is a list of some of the definitions and links from Google:

  • Innovator. One who recognizes opportunities and organizes resources to take advantage of the opportunity.

  • ww.onlinewbc.gov/docs/starting/glossary.html

  • One who assumes the financial risk of the initiation, operation, and management of a given business or undertaking.
    www.business.gov/phases/launching/are_you_ready/glossary.html
  • A
    person who takes the risk of organizing and operating a new business
    venture. (This is an attitude that can be of value in more traditional
    employment as well.)
    www.acceleratoronline.com/viewpage.asp

  • Someone who attempts to profit by risk and initiative.
    www.scottish-enterprise.com/sedotcom_home/help/help-glossary.htm

  • An
    innovator of business enterprise who recognizes opportunities to
    introduce a new product, a new process or an improved organization, and
    who raises the necessary money, assembles the factors for production
    and organizes an operation to exploit the opportunity.
    www.powerhomebiz.com/Glossary/glossary-E.htm
  • French
    word which translates roughly as "enterpriser." In capitalism, a
    speculator who invests capital in stocks, land and machinery, as well
    as the exploitation of wage labor, in the pursuit of profits.
    www.workers.org/marcy/perestroika/glossary.html
  • A
    French term for a person who undertakes and develops a new enterprise
    at some risk (or failure or loss). Although the words innovator,
    proprietor, and capitalist are used in the same sense, there are subtle
    differences that make the term " entrepreneur " preferable.
    www.indiainfoline.com/bisc/jmee.html
  • An
    entrepreneur is someone who assumes the financial risk of beginning and
    managing a new venture. The venture can be based on a totally new idea,
    a new way of doing something, a new location, or attempting something
    no one else has done before.
    www.cybercitymommies.com/Glossary.html
  • Individual who starts an enterprise with its associated risks and responsibilities.
    www.peakagents.ca/glossary/e4.htm
  • someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it 
    wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
  • An
    entrepreneur -derived from the French words ‘entre’ (ie: enter) and
    ‘prendre'(ie: take)- is, in its most general sense, a person who
    creates or starts a new project, opportunity, or venture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur


    • Of all these, I like the last best because it does not impose the artificial qualifier that an entrepreneur must be involved in a for-profit business, or any business for that matter.

    God is  an entrepreneur and is the model for launching bold new initiatives.

    Two key scriptures inform my thinking here:

    Isaiah 43:19 (New International Version)

    19 See, I am doing a new thing!
           Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
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