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 How is
the workplace a location for Christian calling? In
Taking Faith to Work: Next Steps for Christian
Discipleship argues that:
- God's mission embraces the workplace
- The time has come for the church's mission to embrace the
workplace.
- Taking faith to work brings spiritual renewal to Christians.
- Discipleship at work brings health and vitality to secular
institutions.
But what does a calling to the
workplace actually look like? What are the marks of this
ministry? Minus distinguishes a ministry of competence, a
ministry of caring, a ministry of ethics, and a ministry of change.
- A ministry of competence: serving God and neighbor
by doing our work well, through full use of the gifts God has given
each of us, so that the human family is built up and moved nearer
the abundant life of the kingdom.
- A ministry of caring: being attentive and responsive to
the needs and hurts of people in our workplace, so that they
experience something of the authentic community God intends for the
human family.
- A ministry of ethics: moving perceptions and practices of
right and wrong at work to a higher level, so that workplace ethics
better approximate the ways God wills people to live together.
- A ministry of change: developing new institutional
practices and systems that help all people be and do their best, so
that the place of work more nearly becomes a place of grace.
more (read the first chapter of
Taking Faith to Work online - PDF)
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