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No Wonder We Don’t Understand the Meaning of Work!
Commentary on the marketing tone of a Christian publisher
Dan Wooldridge protests the idea that those who have the "proper" understanding of the meaning of work are in the Christian pulpits and publishing houses.
Dan Wooldridge sees a lesson in William Wilberforce that counters the error that "ministry" is the realm of "spiritual" work. Wilberforce led a legendary career in politics.
Bernard Moon examines the dualism that enabled people to compartmentalize life, easing into the role of "Sunday believers" who honor the "natural" separation between church and the rest of the week. Is this why some "Christian" businesspeople can be the most unscrupulous professionals you've met...because they can subdivide their conscience employing a "this is business" rationale?
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Half of the pleasure from the business calling derives from a sense that the system of which it is a part is highly beneficial to the human race, morally sound and one of the great social achievements of all time. The other half is personal — finding purpose and meaning in what one does.
Michael Novak
Allan Lunsford reflects on Africa, and his hopes for the future of the continent.
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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
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Work, for most of us, determines a great part of our opportunity for significance and the amount of good we are able to produce in a lifetime. Besides, work takes up so many of our waking hours that our jobs come to define us and give us our identities. We become what we do. [...]
Os Guinness
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To thine own self be true - but which self should you be true to?[...]
The self to which we must be true is our distinctive and productive self, our unique self, our imaginative, positive, and creative self, the 20 percent or less of ourselves that contributes more than 80 percent of our impact and happiness. Richard Koch
The self to which we must be true is our distinctive and productive self, our unique self, our imaginative, positive, and creative self, the 20 percent or less of ourselves that contributes more than 80 percent of our impact and happiness. Richard Koch
Just as it seemed Jesus would emerge as the golden boy of Galilee, Solomon West looks at a surprising and, for some, upsetting encounter with Jesus.
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"What am I trying to say with my life and work?" Bradley J. Moore asks. "If I were to write a book that distilled my entire mission and mad ramblings into one word, could I do it? What would that one word be?"
Solomon West explores how Jesus framed his work through a potent and surprising mission statement (hint: it doesn't begin and end with a guy in the end zone waving a John 3:16 poster).
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