Coram Mundo: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): Oktober : Coram Mundo : Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen

Teopreneurship: Merumuskan Teologi Entrepreneurship sebagai Jalan Baru Pemberdayaan Gereja dan Masyarakat

Hary Kusumo Nugroho (STT Bethel Indonesia Jakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Oct 2025

Abstract

This study aims to formulate theopreneurship as a theological-entrepreneurial paradigm for empowering the church and society. The study is grounded in the problem that church ministry often remains predominantly charitable, while poverty, economic vulnerability, limited congregational independence, and weak access to productive ecosystems require a more transformative approach. This research employs a qualitative approach using a conceptual-constructive method through a literature review of theology of work, vocation, stewardship, social entrepreneurship, religion and entrepreneurship, and faith-based community empowerment. The data were analyzed through thematic content analysis and conceptual synthesis to construct a theopreneurship framework that avoids reducing church engagement in entrepreneurship to church business, commercialization of ministry, or prosperity theology. The findings indicate that theopreneurship can be understood as a reconstruction of the church’s ministry paradigm from a charitable model toward a productive empowerment ecosystem. Theopreneurship integrates theological values, ethical governance, congregational capacity formation, economic innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and social impact measurement. The central finding of this study affirms that the church does not need to become a corporation to generate economic impact; rather, it must become an empowerment ecosystem that forms congregants who are productive, ethical, independent, and socially transformative.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Corammundo

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Subject

Religion Humanities

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