Beyond Sunday

Spotlight Series: Kingdom Entrepreneurship, Peace, and Building From Identity

This article is the third in the “Inside The Thought Shack” series — a collection of reflections and revelations emerging from Beyond’s marketplace gathering. While the original feature explored the overarching themes and prophetic tensions that shaped the evening, this series zooms in on the individual voices, insights, and lived experiences of each panelist.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored the perspectives of Dr. Chad Marthinussen and Pastor Jay. In this edition, the spotlight turns to Dom Press, founder of En Root Tours, whose reflections challenged the room to rethink success, excellence, peace, and what it truly means to build from identity rather than pressure.

Missed the original article? Read:
Inside The Thought Shack: The Marketplace Awakening — For The Honour Of His Name

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KINGDOM ENTREPRENEURSHIP BEGINS WITH SURRENDER

If there was one assumption Dom dismantled during the evening, it was the idea that Kingdom business begins with strategy.

According to him, it begins with surrender.

As founder of a luxury travel business operating across global markets, Dom’s world is built on systems, logistics, growth, and operational excellence. Yet when he spoke, he did not begin with scale.

He began with devotion.

And perhaps that was what made his contribution so compelling.

While business culture often celebrates optimisation, Dom spoke about consecration. While entrepreneurial circles reward self-made narratives, he described a life and business progressively shaped by something far deeper than ambition.

Not an overnight revelation.

A journey.

When asked about his understanding of Kingdom entrepreneurship, Dom resisted the temptation to point to a single breakthrough moment.

Instead, he described formation.

“It wasn’t an overnight thought or experience.”

For him, Kingdom entrepreneurship was not first learned intellectually. It was caught.

Caught through proximity, obedience, and walking alongside people who carried a revelation he wanted to embody for himself.

That conviction reshaped his entire posture toward business.

He spoke openly about tithing “off the top” of the business — a practice that often appears irrational through conventional business logic.

Yet for Dom, it was never primarily about generosity.

It was about ownership.

Or more accurately, surrendering ownership.

Because from his perspective, the business was never the destination.

People were.

Nations were.

The Kingdom was.

His conviction became unmistakably clear:

The business may be part of who he is, but it does not define who he is.

And therefore, the business must follow where conviction leads — not the other way around.

As he put it:

“The system will have to catch up.”

It was a subtle but profound reversal of modern entrepreneurial thinking.

Rather than allowing business success to shape identity, identity in Christ must shape the business.

EXCELLENCE IS A WAY OF BEING

Later in the evening, Dom was asked how entrepreneurs can balance excellence with growth when resources are limited.

His answer was refreshingly honest.

“You’ll never really balance… it’s always a juggle.”

The room laughed.

But beneath the humour sat a deeper truth.

Excellence is not something switched on when opportunity arrives.

It is not branding.
It is not customer service.
It is not a department.

It is a way of carrying yourself.

Dom challenged the room to stop waiting for more resources and start stewarding what is already in their hands.

How you speak.
How you show up.
How you carry responsibility.

These seemingly small disciplines often create opportunities long before strategy ever does.

And when those opportunities arrive, you must be able to sustain the standard that introduced you to the room.

In Dom’s framework, excellence was no longer aspirational.

It became embodied.

WHEN PASSION AND PURPOSE ALIGN

One of the evening’s most memorable insights emerged around discernment.

How do you know whether a business idea is worth pursuing?

Dom answered with a simple image: two gears.

One represented passion.

The other purpose.

Separate, they spin independently.

Together, they create movement.

Passion alone creates excitement. Purpose alone can become obligation. But when the two interlock, momentum begins to form.

For Dom, discernment was never about chasing opportunities.

It was about recognising alignment.

Yet he was equally clear that discernment should never happen in isolation.

“Have a voice in your life.”

Someone who can challenge.
Refine.
Confirm.

Because not every good idea is assignment.

And wisdom often arrives through community.

The implication reached far beyond entrepreneurship.

The Kingdom is not calling believers into endless activity.

It is calling them into obedience.

PROTECTING WHAT MATTERS MOST

Perhaps one of the most powerful moments of the evening arrived during the panel’s closing reflections.

After conversations about growth, systems, innovation, and leadership, Dom ended somewhere much quieter.

Peace.

“Your peace is expensive.”

In a culture that rewards urgency and celebrates constant availability, Dom reframed peace not as passivity, but as stewardship.

Something worth protecting.

He admitted there are times he deliberately ignores messages, delays responses, or steps back from demands.

Not from avoidance.

But because losing peace costs too much.

Then came the image that brought everything together.

The storm.

Most people focus on the chaos.

Dom focuses on the eye.

The centre.

The place of calm.

Not pretending the storm does not exist.

But refusing to let it become the place of vision.

His encouragement was simple:

Focus beyond what is happening now.

Anchor yourself in what God is doing through it.

Endure today.

Because today is only one day.

BUILDING FROM THE INSIDE OUT

By the end of the conversation, the language of business had quietly given way to something deeper.

What emerged through Dom’s reflections was not merely a blueprint for building a successful company.

It was a blueprint for becoming the kind of person capable of carrying Kingdom responsibility without losing your soul in the process.

His message suggested something many believers need to hear:

Kingdom entrepreneurship is not first about growth.

It is about alignment.

Not first about expansion.

But devotion.

Not first about reaching nations.

But remaining anchored while you do.

Because when identity leads, systems eventually follow.

When devotion leads, growth finds its proper place.

And when surrender leads, influence becomes something God can trust.

For Dom, the goal is not merely to build businesses.

It is to become the kind of people who can faithfully carry what we build.

For the honour of His Name.