Course Overview

Christian Entrepreneurship (3 Credits)

Instructor: Dr. Charles Streeter

This course explores entrepreneurship through a Christian lens, teaching students how to design, lead, and pitch sustainable ventures that integrate biblical principles, sound business practices, and kingdom impact.

Course Overview:

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of entrepreneurship through the lens of Christian faith. Students will explore how biblical principles of stewardship, integrity, and service intersect with the entrepreneurial process, from opportunity recognition and innovation to venture creation and growth. The course emphasizes the role of entrepreneurship as a calling, a form of cultural engagement, and a means of advancing the common good. Using open-access scholarship and applied projects, students will examine how to design sustainable business models, lead with servant leadership, and measure success beyond profit to include kingdom impact. By the end of the semester, students will be equipped to articulate and pitch a Christian venture that integrates sound business practices with gospel-centered purpose.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Define and explain Christian entrepreneurship as both an academic discipline and a vocational calling, distinguishing it from secular approaches to business creation.
2. Apply biblical principles of stewardship, integrity, and service to entrepreneurial decision-making, particularly in innovation, finance, marketing, and leadership.
3. Recognize and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities that address social, economic, and spiritual needs, using tools such as business models and value propositions.
4. Develop strategies for marketing, financing, and scaling ventures that balance profitability with Christian mission and ethical responsibility.
5. Analyze and reflect on the global movement of “business as mission” and its role in advancing the gospel in diverse cultural and economic contexts.
6. Demonstrate servant leadership in building teams, fostering innovation, and cultivating organizational culture rooted in humility and collaboration.
7. Measure success using holistic frameworks such as the quadruple bottom line (people, planet, profit, purpose), evaluating both tangible and kingdom outcomes

Assignments

1. Read all online reading materials.
2. Watch online video lectures for each unit. 
3. Take the online quiz for each unit. 
4. You will have 75 minutes to answer 20 multiple-choice questions for each quiz. Once a quiz has started, you must finish it, and you can't retake it. So be ready ahead of time. While taking the quiz, you may use your notes and refer to articles and other materials. Tip: First answer all the questions you know. Then try to look up answers to questions you don't know. When you have entered an answer for every question, submit the quiz for grading before the 60-minute limit.
5. There are two papers that will be submitted during this course. Ensure papers are written in APA format, to include citations and references. Once complete, send papers via email to cstreeter@christianleaders.net.

Grading Scale

A 95-100%   A- 90-94%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%   C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%

Your average grade for all assignments in the class must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no course credit.

Note: You must complete all work by the final deadline of the course. If you are not done by that date, you will have to take the class again in order to receive credit.