How Do You Decide Who to Do Business With?

If Christianity is important to how you run your business, one tangle you may run into is how to decide who to do business with.

Now, this has little to do with customers. Choosing customers on the basis of religion, or, more to the point, refusing to do business due to religious issues, opens you up to legal issues. Besides, you really cannot ask that question of a customer in most situations. If your business is clearly a Christian one, you may have to deal with the occasional sarcastic - or worse! - comment from people who really have no intention of buying from you, but most who object will simply not purchase from you.

But you are probably thinking about your suppliers. Should they be Christian too?

You can certainly make the effort, but be aware that most larger businesses will not state a religion, so you may have to look hard and/or pay higher prices. Then again, you could pay less, since religion has nothing to do with prices.

When religion is unclear, you can always take a look at how a company produces its products as well as what it produces to decide if they are compatible with your Christian ethics. Do they make products you object to or use anything resembling slave labor?

When it comes down to it, for many businesses there will only be so much you can do to work with other Christian businesses. Allow your faith to lead you.

Whatever you do with your business, do not be excessively forceful about your beliefs with either your customers or your suppliers. It is far better to be a good example of a Christian. Forcefulness is far more likely to drive people away.

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