Transforming Your Business into a Ministry: Integrating Faith and Leadership with Matt Walton

Transform your business into a thriving ministry and advance the kingdom of Jesus Christ with our latest episode of Voda Talk with Matt Walton. As someone who's seen over 100% growth in a failing business, I'll share the strategies and systems that brought this transformation to life. Whether you're in landscaping, manufacturing, or digital marketing, this discussion explores how you can integrate your faith into your professional sphere, using your business as a powerful platform for ministry. We explore the concept of a "church without walls," and how you can leverage your unique skills and opportunities to make a meaningful impact.

In this episode, I delve into my journey of turning a struggling business around, providing insights into the tactics that worked and those that didn't. We'll explore the essential role of leadership, culture development, and scripture in business operations. Uncover effective processes, strategies, and the importance of tracking KPIs to ensure your business thrives while fulfilling a higher purpose. With a commitment to offering you the most valuable content, I promise weekly insights and practical advice that you can apply directly to your business. Let's discover together the boundless possibilities when business meets faith.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 0 (00:00):
Welcome to my channel .
My name is Matt Walton and thisis a Voda Talk with Matt Walton
or at the real Matt Walton,depending on how you found me.
And this channel exists to talkall things businesses, ministry
or all things kingdom, businessor all things scripture and
tying that to business or tyingthat to life, or just getting
into the depths of scripture,talking business strategy and

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talking how you can use yourbusiness as your ministry.
God has put it on my heart totransform the way that business
is done and to help peopleunderstand that your business is
your ministry.
And we, as business owners orpeople in the marketplace, have
the most unique opportunity toadvance the kingdom of Jesus
Christ right now.
And how we do that is using ourbusiness as our ministry, our

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bringing the church to ourbusiness by having a zero walls,
a church without wallsmentality, and by using every
single gift or platform or thingthat we have to further the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
And it just so happens to befor me within business.
God has gifted me within thatand has called me within

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business to change the waybusiness is done and to help
people understand that yourbusiness is your ministry.
So what does this channel standon.
What are the topics that we'regoing to get into?
And, of course, it's going tobe all things scripture.
I'm going to dive intoscripture and I'm going to dive
into the culture aroundscripture and the context that
it was written into.
We're going to do word studiesand just do in-depth dive into

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the scriptures.
But we're also going to getinto business and using business
as your ministry and tyingscripture to all of that how you
can operate a kingdom business.
We're going to talk aboutsystems, strategies, processes,
how you can automate everything,relationships, leadership, how
you can develop culture,everything.
Business is what we're going totalk about and it's all going

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to be tied to scripture.
So my promise to you is I'mgoing to put out content every
single week, and this content isstuff that I am going to spend
several hours preparing forevery single week to make sure
that, minute by minute, this isthe most value that you will
receive when you listen topodcasts.
So that is my promise to youguys I'll put in all the work on
my side.

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I will be upfront and honestwith you of things that are
working or are not working.
Eventually, I'm going toprovide some literature for you
guys that whenever I talk aboutdoing a strategic annual
business plan, y'all will see anoutline for that, so it's easy
for you to apply.
But who am I?
Why should you listen to me?
Believe me, I understand.
Whenever I scroll across peopleand I see people that are
within my wheelhouse and doingsome of these things, a lot of

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times I click right on throughuntil I understand that this
person has been there, done thatand they have a certain level
of accolades.
So who am I?
What have I done?
And number one, first andforemost, I am a servant to
Jesus Christ and that is where Iroot myself, and that is where
I root myself and that is wheremy identity is at.
But I am also somebody thatbought a business and that is a

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business owner, that is anentrepreneur that owns several
businesses and that has seensignificant growth, to the tune
of 100 plus percent over thecourse of the last year.
And I'm on track to get higherthan tactics, the strategies,
the processes that work for me.
I'll go through the things thatdidn't work for me and why they

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didn't work.
I'll go through how I doubledown on these things over here,
the things that I track, all theKPIs and all of that stuff and
what has led me from buying abusiness that was tanking, that
was going under, to seeing itthrive now, to seeing it thrive
now and to see, within the lastyear, triple the amount of
people back in my shop and ahundred percent growth over the

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cross over the course of of my,my pool and manufacturing
business.
So if you guys are interested inthat and want to hear about how
you can use your business asyour ministry and how you can, I
don't care if you're alandscaper, if you're in
manufacturing, if you'resomebody in the digital
marketing space.
It doesn't matter who you areor what you are doing.
God wants to use you.
God is looking for people topartner with, and that may be
you, and he wants to partnerwith you and he wants for you to

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use your platform, whetherthat's a group of five people or
5,000 people, to advance hiskingdom.
So I would love to learn moreabout you, develop a
relationship with you, hear thecontent that you would like to
hear within that same wheelhouseand leave a comment or write a
review and let me know what youguys think.
But thank you guys for tuningin and I look forward to seeing

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what you guys turn this channelinto, so we look forward to
hearing from you guys, and y'allcan expect a brand new episode
to drop every single Wednesday.