My faith and my work in my life have become synonymous with one another. They have become one in the same because it comes out of what my true mindset is. To most people on the outside, they look at one as a Christian, and they might say, you're a business person or a corporate person who is a Christian. But that's not my understanding. That's not how I think.

I'm a Christian who is assigned to the marketplace, whether as an entrepreneur in my businesses or as a corporate executive in all the boards and that I work on. It’s really understanding that my business and my career might be the pulpit, the place where I preach the Gospel, the place where I get a chance to show who Christ is.

I'm a Christian who is assigned to the marketplace.

The most beautiful part of it is the people I could run into in the boardroom or in the marketplace who might not be people I would meet in church. Some of them never walked through the doors of a church, so I'm the only church they are ever going to meet. Therefore, I have to be the Christ they see in the work that I do. That puts you under a lot of pressure, but it makes you hold yourself accountable. I realize that my truth has to be true. Because if it's not, I could cost Christ a life.

If I'm the last person on the face of the earth that needs to minister the Gospel to the person I just did business with, or that person would never accept the Gospel because of my behavior, that is one of the most scary things I can imagine as a Christian. Having that at the back of my mind drives the basis of my decision-making every day. It is why I could talk about how “only you can choose” because at every point in time, you're presented with a choice.

You must have predetermined in advance the context in which you will judge the decisions you will make at every crossroad. For me, that context is three key things.

1. I want to walk out of every situation preserving my testimony as a child of God.
2. I want to walk out of every situation preserving my family name.
3. I want to walk out of every situation preserving my father's name.

This means you're willing to pay the price. Now, the reality is you are going to have to pay that price many times, and many times it will cost you. But in my experience, I have learned that every price I've had to pay to fight for a good name and for a good testimony is a price worth paying. It's been painful sometimes.

At every point in time, you're presented with a choice.

We have to be long term players.

I want to die empty—totally empty; there’s not a gift from God or talent I have that I would not have used for the benefit of my family, the church, the world, or my nation. I want to ensure that I can express all my gifts. This makes me multidimensional in many cases because people keep asking, how can you do so many different things? If you've been gifted, God has given the grace for you to express yourself in all those areas, and that allows you to perform multiple tasks at the same time. At the end of the day, I want to know when I walk through the doors of heaven, God can say welcome my good and faithful servant.

My business, my career, my life, and my faith cannot be separated [...] we’re one in the same. God meant us to be inseparable from our faith, close to Christ and His life. If we say Christ lives inside me, it means that when I go to work, He's there. I don't leave Him at home or leave Him at the gate of the Church on Sunday. There cannot be two sides to it. It is one in the same, and I have to be able to express Christ in the midst of my day.

This article was transcribed from a video short with Ibukun Awosika.