We are sharing story about God’s people in the workplace. Do you have a story about God working through you in your work culture?
When our Lord walked this earth, His association with work and a professional job was stunning, to say the least. The people who knew Him identified him as “the carpenter” (Mark 6:2-3), meaning He did more than part-time carpentry work every so often. Rather, the use of the definite article “the Carpenter” clearly pointed to it as His occupation and even operating a…
“God in Work” seeks to help people understand how their spiritual and professional life work as one. The Christian faith gives work its greatest purpose, and in the most practical ways. Our training gives people the opportunity to gain a greater perspective of a Biblical view of work and see how in practical ways this is lived out at work. This four-session…
We often use the word “workforce” to describe a number of employees working together to carry out a specific activity in a company. Together their cooperative efforts accomplish a bigger purpose than our individual responsibilities. For instance, a flight leaving Atlanta and going to Munich requires a coordination of employees and equipment. This workforce is made up of people in flight operations, ground people, mechanics, airport/gate agents, baggage handlers, and finally cabin and flight deck crews, all of which work together to carry out this purpose.
Do you realize that there are also other forces constantly working around you in your workplace? I don’t mean the company workforce, but spiritual forces that are trying to form your attitude and actions toward a purpose quite contrary to the Christian faith? It can happen when employees around you join together to show their disgust over the company, toward a supervisor, or maybe toward an employee with a troubling life, or maybe even you. Their joint coordination is like an energizing force around you creating a general attitude or response toward a person or a company policy. Some Christians think that if they just ignore such things, or distance themselves, it will eventually go away and not affect them. But this is furthest from the truth. (more…)
Last week Paul went to Raleigh/Durham NC for a day to speak at a Lunch meeting to those who are a part of the Christian CEBRG group in American Airline. There were around 35-40 who attended!
Then we flew to New Zealand and went down to the Torchbearers center (Capernwray) in Cambridge NZ. Paul was asked to come and teach our Workplace Training to the BML (Business, Ministry, Leadership) student. Also later that week was graduation for the BML students and the Bible School students, and Paul was the graduation speaker.
Did you know that by the time your people retire from their job they will have spent approximately 90,000 hour in the workplace? While at the same time, if they attended church regularly they will have spent approximately 5,000 hours in church. This means for every 1 hour spent at church they spent 18 hours at the workplace. In order to fulfill the Great Commission, we cannot ignore the workplace. Please consider how the workplace can become a missional opportunity for people in your local church!
