How to Equip Believers to Take Their Faith to the Marketplace
Note: This title is a “play on words” and has 2 meanings: getting your faith to work (for you in your life) and then getting (taking) your faith – to work (the marketplace)
Jesus didn’t call just Clergy to build His Church. He called people in the Marketplace. He lived in a country crowded with seminary graduates. Yet not one of Jesus’ twelve, original disciples was a Sadducee, Pharisee, prophet or priest. Instead, He chose to build His church with a handful of entrepreneurs. Independent businessmen whose only theological education came from the school of hard knocks.
The Bible is full of people just like you. In fact, a full 75% of all the major characters in God’s Word never held a religious job in their lives. Somehow, we’ve forgotten that time after time-from Daniel to Nehemiah, from Esther to Lydia-that God called everyday people to be His workaday ministers in the real world. And He still does.
“It’s time for believers to confidently carry their faith with them into the marketplace so that our very culture feels the difference. We need a radically different way of thinking about our world. Instead of running from it, we need to rush into it. And instead of just hanging around the fringes of our culture, we need to be right smack dab in the middle of it.” Bob Briner- Roaring Lambs
We need a new clergy in the workplace to function as God’s agents, to accomplish His work. Unless you can make a connection between what you do all day and what you think God wants you to be doing, you will never find ultimate meaning in your work or in your relationship with God. If you are an insurance salesman, you have to be convinced that you are selling insurance because God wants insurance to be sold. If He does not, then you are wasting your life.
“There is no such thing as full-time Christian service and secular service. There’s only full-time Christian service and we’re all in it.” Bob Schwab-Senior Development Engineer-Caterpillar, Inc.
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