Should Christians consider a company's beliefs before making a purchase?
This discussion explores whether Christians should consider a company’s beliefs before making purchases, with a focus on the balance between supporting products without endorsing the company’s values. The article encourages personal discernment, prayer, and research, emphasizing that choices should be guided by the Holy Spirit.
In today’s world, where companies often promote specific social or political stances, many Christians are asking if we should be selective about where we spend our money. Does buying from a company with different beliefs mean supporting those beliefs? Or is it possible to appreciate quality products without endorsing the company’s values?
This article explores the biblical principles of discernment, prayer, and research when making these choices. Ultimately, it encourages us to seek guidance from the Holy Spirit and decide based on personal conviction:
A business cannot not be Christian or Atheist or any religion. It is not a human. It exists to make a profit and may CATER to a SPECIFIC clientele.
I use businesses that offer excellent products at reasonable prices. Unless the business is involved in actively causing harm to humans or animals, or mistreats its employees, I don’t boycott.
I love the investment companies that promote “biblically responsible” investing and the Christian leaders who promote them. We won’t steer you to “biblically irresponsible” companies that are involved in abortion, pornography, woke-ism or furtherance of the LBTGQ agenda. This is the rather narrow definition of what “biblically responsible” means.
Involvement in animal cruelty, weapons of mass destruction, vastly overpriced pharmaceuticals, products fantastically damaging to the public health and welfare? Nah, that has nothing to do with being biblically responsible. In fact, those are the companies we highly capitalistic “biblically responsible” folks love to death.
I pointed out to one of these gurus, the late Dan Celia, that the entire American economy is biblically irresponsible, almost by definition. As Thoreau said, “Even if you deal in messages from heaven, the curse of trade touches everything.” Yep, even Christian book and Bible publishers are biblically irresponsible - guaranteed, it goes with the territory.
