Welcome to CBCB: Chicago Booth Christians in Business!

1. Welcome to CBCB: Chicago Booth Christians in Business!

2. We Are Family! (Mark 3:35; Gal 3:28) • Family ice-breaker: bookworms • Groups of two or three, answer the following: • What is your favorite book? (outside the Bible, of course…) • If you were a famous author, what style/genre would you write in? • What would be the name of your autobiography?

3. Mark’s Minute

4. King David’s Business Principles

5. King David’s Business Principles What lessons have we learned so far? Leaders embrace challenges – while trusting in God • Killed a lion, a bear, and a Philistine giant – oh my! • Relied on God’s strength to overcome each challenge • Gave God the glory for deliverance Leaders are molded by adversity • His siblings hated him • His boss hated him and tried to kill him on many occasions • A number of his children died young • His son conspired to kill him and take his throne Leaders openly give the glory to God • David glorified God frequently and publicly • David sought God for deliverance frequently and Publicly Leaders read their Bibles and seek the Lord • David wrote the Psalms and practiced what he preached

6. 1 Samuel 24:1-7 After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, "David is in the Desert of En Gedi." So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats. He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cavewas there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave. The men said, "This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said to you, 'I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.' " Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe. Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the LORD." With these words David rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way. 1 Samuel 26:5-11 Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of the army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him. David then asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, "Who will go down into the camp with me to Saul?" "I'll go with you," said Abishai. So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of my spear; I won't strike him twice." But David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless? As surely as the LORD lives," he said, "the LORD himself will strike him; either his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish. But the LORD forbid that I should lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head, and let's go."

7. King David’s Business Principles Leaders don’t take shortcuts • He never killed the LORD’s anointed – even when it seemed like the obvious, and even right, thing to do (he was anointed!) • Discussion time! • Have you ever been faced with a situation where the obvious thing to do didn’t feel right? What did you do? What happened? • Where are we being (will be) peer-pressured to take shortcuts? • How do you know the difference between a shortcut and God’s will for your life? • Where in your life is God asking you to wait for Him? • Matthew 4:8-11 • Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.' " Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

8. 2 Samuel 11:1-17  In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roofof the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliamand the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant." So David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house. When David was told, "Uriah did not go home," he asked him, "Haven't you just come from a distance? Why didn't you go home?" Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and liewith my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!" Then David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home. In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die." So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

9. King David’s Business Principles Leaders are present, participatory, and proactive • David’s first failure was failing to lead his men; idle hands are the Devil’s workshop • Consequences get worse as sin is compounded and we run further away from God • Discussion time! • Describe a time in your life when running from God led to increasing consequences. How did you feel? What happened? • Where are your biggest temptations? Where are we being (will be) told that there are no consequences for sin? • Where in your life is God asking you to stop running or compounding your sin and repent so the healing may begin? • Ephesians 5:15-17 •  Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

10. 2 Samuel 12:7-17  Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.' "This is what the LORD says: 'Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.' " Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan replied, "The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became ill. David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground. The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

11. King David’s Business Principles Leaders openly repent when they mess up • When David finally repented the healing began, but some consequences are unavoidable • Discussion time! • Describe a time in your life when you stopped running from God and returned to Him. How did you return? What happened? • How can we model this repentant attitude at school? In business? In all areas of life? • Where in your life is God asking you to stop running or compounding your sin and repent so the healing may begin? • 1 John 1:8-10 • If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

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