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Is Your Work Less Valuable?

Bernard Moon wonders if religious professionals really mean to say they follow a higher calling than the rest of us...because sometimes that's what it sounds like.
Bernard Moon / Aug 7 2008
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Business Is Our Mission

Al Lunsford thinks we are seeing a role reversal in which the influence of religious professionals is waning as the spiritual influence of ordinary workers grows. The vanguard of biblical spirituality is people who incarnate the good news of God’s kingdom by their lives in the marketplace.
Allan Lunsford / Jun 16 2010
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37: Business as a Calling

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Possession and direction of the forces of wealth are as legitimate an expression of the redemptive rule of God in human life as is Bible teaching or a prayer meeting. For example, it is as great and as difficult a spiritual calling to run the factories and the mines, the banks and the department stores, [...] Dallas Willard
Dan Wooldridge / Sep 15 2008
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Business as Missions

your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven

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Can you imagine what would happen if all the entities that make up commerce were reshaped by people with a biblical worldview?
Allan Lunsford / Oct 5 2009
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Os Hillman: The 9 to 5 Window

How Faith Can Transform the Workplace

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One of an emerging genre of books helping people to see their call to the workplace with suggestions on how to transformatively live out their faith at work. As we have been speaking to this issue for over 15 years, we are glad to see the trend emerging.
Dan Wooldridge / Mar 10 2006
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Five Problems That Are Killing the “Faith in the Workplace” Movement

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Bradley J. Moore is wrestling with what may be the best path to bringing faith and spirituality into the workplace in a positive and productive manner.
Bradley J Moore / Jan 25 2010
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Comments related to Business As Mission

Dan Wooldridge » Steve, I think the reality of most organizations is that there are things that need to be improved, just like us as individuals. The challenge for a leader is to go down into the belly of the business, [...] When Your Culture Eats Your Company for Lunch
Dan Wooldridge » from if Glad you enjoyed the article, Travis. And thanks for passing it along! I'll be sure to pass on to my bro' your comments! Jesse Owens' Gold Medal Friendship
Dan Wooldridge » Thanks, Bernard. And thanks, Nick, for adding additional insight to the discussion. I like the way you connect the individual and the corporate. (And for those of you who may not understand "SRC," that's [...] Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Jim Hancock » In 2008, we posted the audio recording of the April 2004 SEC meeting at which regulators voted—with nervous laughs and gallows humor—to exempt the five biggest investment banks from the net capital [...] Five Lessons Bankers Must Relearn in the 21st Century
Jim Hancock » Timothy, I would only suggest this prior condition to your observation: I think the first principle of doing our work as if it were for God—and not merely for management—is that love trumps duty. Not [...] Good Boss | Bad Boss