Speaker 1: This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry
Speaker 1: of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue with our series
Speaker 1: called Doing Business with God. In this series, Rick helps
Speaker 1: you understand why you work, what you should be working for,
Speaker 1: and how God can use you in your workplace. Right now,
Speaker 1: here's Pastor Rick with part two of a message called
Speaker 1: the Purpose of Work.
Speaker 2: You know, some people think that the goal of life
Speaker 2: is really just to make enough money so you can
Speaker 2: do nothing. No, the goal of life is not to
Speaker 2: do nothing. In fact, Proverbs twelve twenty seven. Look up
Speaker 2: here on the screen. A lazy life is a what
Speaker 2: an empty life? You know? I just read a fascinating
Speaker 2: study this week on why depression is rising as an
Speaker 2: epidemic in our society. More and more depressed people today
Speaker 2: than ever before, particularly among teenagers and young adults. Depression
Speaker 2: rates are soaring. Why and it said, because we have
Speaker 2: more free time than ever before. Now, free time is
Speaker 2: a good thing, but you weren't meant to live your
Speaker 2: whole life in free time. There's a time to work,
Speaker 2: there's a time to play, there's a time to do
Speaker 2: something hard, there's a time to rest. The Bible says
Speaker 2: there's a time for everything. There are patterns, and there
Speaker 2: are rhythms in life. And if your life is all
Speaker 2: free time, then your life lacks meaning, your life lacks purpose,
Speaker 2: and that lack of meaning and purpose leads to depression.
Speaker 2: And so they're saying, a lot of teenagers who have
Speaker 2: a lot of free time on their hands, and a
Speaker 2: lot of young adults who've gone to school but can't
Speaker 2: find a job in this economy, got a lot of
Speaker 2: free time in there. They're having epidemic proportion of depression.
Speaker 2: Because we weren't made to do nothing. We were made
Speaker 2: to make our lives count. People are happiest. You're happiest
Speaker 2: when you're using the talents God gave you for something
Speaker 2: great than yourself that gives your life meaning. That's what
Speaker 2: this series is all about, to help you discover your
Speaker 2: own personal talents and use them for the greatest causes
Speaker 2: in the world. Now, the greatest cause in the world,
Speaker 2: of course, is the Kingdom of God. It is the Church.
Speaker 2: God is building a family. The whole reason the world
Speaker 2: exists is God is creating a family that one day
Speaker 2: is going to live with in forever. When you give
Speaker 2: your life to the Kingdom of God, There's nothing more
Speaker 2: significant than that, and it gives your life meaning in purpose.
Speaker 2: What does it mean to live a successful life? What
Speaker 2: does it mean to have a successful career? Well, it
Speaker 2: would be like Paul to say. Paul at the end
Speaker 2: of his life could say I've finished the race. I've
Speaker 2: fought the good fight. I've run my course. In other words,
Speaker 2: I did what God put me on earth to do.
Speaker 2: Jesus at the end of his life told the disciples
Speaker 2: and told Jesus the Father, I have finished the work
Speaker 2: that you gave me to do. Will you be able
Speaker 2: to say that at the end of your life? So
Speaker 2: I don't even know what is the work God gave
Speaker 2: me to do. When Jesus was twelve years old, the
Speaker 2: very first recorded words of Jesus were I must be
Speaker 2: about my father's business. He already knew what business he
Speaker 2: was in at age twelve, and at the end of
Speaker 2: his life on the cross, he says, it is finished.
Speaker 2: That is the book in those are the bookends of
Speaker 2: a life well lived. That's a definition of success. I
Speaker 2: must be about my father's business, and I've finished the
Speaker 2: work that you gave me to do. It is finished.
Speaker 2: What is my business? And how's business. Those are two
Speaker 2: fundamental questions you need to be asking about your life.
Speaker 2: Meaning matters more than money. And what we want you
Speaker 2: to do is we want you to not waste your life,
Speaker 2: but make the rest of your life the best of
Speaker 2: your life. First purpose, necessity, I work in order to live.
Speaker 2: Second purpose, identity, I work in order to express my talents.
Speaker 2: Third purpose maturity maturity. I work in order to develop
Speaker 2: my character. I work in order to develop my character.
Speaker 2: That's maturity. Pastor Buddy Owens is going to come and
Speaker 2: teach you on the next couple of points.
Speaker 3: So God is far more concerned about who you are
Speaker 3: than what you do, and he is much more interested
Speaker 3: in your character than he is in your career. God
Speaker 3: uses your work and your workplace to develop your character.
Speaker 3: Your workplace is a testing ground, it's a life course
Speaker 3: in character development. And if you have a boss who
Speaker 3: drives you nuts, you'll notice I'm not turning around.
Speaker 4: But think about this.
Speaker 3: God can use a boss that drives you nuts. He
Speaker 3: can use a workplace that you're unhappy in. He can
Speaker 3: use those things to develop and to grow character. It's
Speaker 3: like he's it's like he plants little seeds in your heart.
Speaker 3: A seed of love, seeds of joy, seeds of peace,
Speaker 3: seeds of patience. And then in the workplace he fertilizes
Speaker 3: those seeds.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I want to make a
Speaker 4: bumper sticker.
Speaker 3: This says, fertilizer happens, and most often in life, the
Speaker 3: fertilizing of those seeds of character. Those are the things
Speaker 3: that are happening in the workplace. Because God is trying
Speaker 3: to make something out of you. It's so much more
Speaker 3: than just what you do. It's who you are, and
Speaker 3: it's who you become. And when you're in the workplace
Speaker 3: and you're asking how come this is going on, and
Speaker 3: why is this such a tough place, and why are
Speaker 3: these people picking on me? And why isn't my life
Speaker 3: happier in the workplace, you're really just asking the same
Speaker 3: question that Solomon asked in the Bible.
Speaker 4: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 3: In Ecclesiastes, he said, he said, you spend your life
Speaker 3: working and laboring, and what do you have to show
Speaker 3: for it?
Speaker 4: The answer is character. It's character.
Speaker 3: As Rick always says, life is preparation for eternity, it's
Speaker 3: preparation for heaven, and God is developing your character here
Speaker 3: on earth because it's the only thing you're going to
Speaker 3: take to heaven with you. You're not going to take
Speaker 3: your career with you to heaven. Some of you are
Speaker 3: very happy to hear that news, but you are.
Speaker 4: Going to take your character.
Speaker 3: And while you are here on earth, God is developing
Speaker 3: your character, and he's testing you. He's testing your faithfulness.
Speaker 3: Will you be faithful to do the right thing even
Speaker 3: when you don't feel like doing the right thing. He's
Speaker 3: watching so that he can determine and decide what kind
Speaker 3: of job is he going to give you in eternity.
Speaker 4: Look at what Jesus says in Luke chapter sixteen.
Speaker 3: He says, whoever can be trusted with very little can
Speaker 3: be trusted with much. If you have not been trustworthy
Speaker 3: in handling worldly wealth, then who will trust you with
Speaker 3: true riches? And if you've not been trustworthy with someone
Speaker 3: else's property, then who will give you their own or
Speaker 3: your own? There's a great example of this in the
Speaker 3: Old Testament. At the end of Genesis, about the last
Speaker 3: ten or so chapters, you read about a man named Joseph,
Speaker 3: and God had given Joseph a vision, a dream of
Speaker 3: being a great leader. But for forty years he spent
Speaker 3: his life as a slave. Much of that time he
Speaker 3: actually spent working in prison. That was the testing ground,
Speaker 3: the proving ground, the developing ground, the fertilizing of Joseph's character.
Speaker 4: That when the day came.
Speaker 3: And the time was just right, that God pulled him
Speaker 3: out of that setting and placed him where God had
Speaker 3: always intended Joseph to be. During that entire time, God
Speaker 3: was growing Joseph's character. In fact, look at what the
Speaker 3: Bible says in Psalm one O five, verse nineteen. It says,
Speaker 3: until the time came to fulfill his word, the Lord
Speaker 3: tested Joseph's character. So while you're working on the job,
Speaker 3: working on you, and the most important thing that you're
Speaker 3: going to bring home from your job is not your paycheck.
Speaker 3: The most important thing you bring home is you. It's
Speaker 3: who you are becoming. And if you're in one of
Speaker 3: those positions right now, maybe you're looking at a job change,
Speaker 3: a career change, Maybe you're in something that's been either
Speaker 3: forced on you, or you're just trying to decide is
Speaker 3: it time for me to move on? The most important
Speaker 3: question for you to be asking is not what will
Speaker 3: I make?
Speaker 4: But what will I become? Now?
Speaker 3: Right now. I am in my third career, my third
Speaker 3: working career. My first career was in politics, no kidding,
Speaker 3: right out of college. My first job, I was the
Speaker 3: administrative assistant to the Lieutenant Governor of California. And then
Speaker 3: I spent twenty years in the music business. And at
Speaker 3: the end of that twenty years, God opened a door
Speaker 3: for me and booted me right out into a hallway.
Speaker 3: I left that and there I was waiting to see
Speaker 3: what next door, what the next opportunity was going to
Speaker 3: be that would open up for me. I wasn't at
Speaker 3: saddleback at that time. I was a member of another church.
Speaker 3: I was a businessman. I wasn't a pastor. But there
Speaker 3: was an old guy in our congregation who knew what
Speaker 3: was going on with me. He said, you know, buddy,
Speaker 3: when God closes one door, he opens another. But it's
Speaker 3: hell in the hallway. I've been in the hallway, and
Speaker 3: any of you who are in the hallway, let me
Speaker 3: tell you what I learned in that hallway. I looked
Speaker 3: at the hallway as an opportunity to see if God
Speaker 3: might want to completely reinvent me, to not necessarily just
Speaker 3: find another job in the same career, but to say, Lord,
Speaker 3: is there's something entirely different you want to do with
Speaker 3: my life that never could have been done in that
Speaker 3: old career, in the same career. See, the Bible says
Speaker 3: that when you commit your way to the Lord, he
Speaker 3: directs your steps. And I committed my way to the Lord.
Speaker 3: So I believed that God was directing my steps, that
Speaker 3: he had something in mind for me. I wasn't sure
Speaker 3: what it was at that time. But just a couple
Speaker 3: months after winding up in that hallway, still wondering where
Speaker 3: I was going to go, what I was going to
Speaker 3: do with my life, I got a phone call from
Speaker 3: a friend of mine. Is this guy sitting back here,
Speaker 3: Pastor Rick. I wasn't a member of this church. He
Speaker 3: was my friend long before he was my pastor. He
Speaker 3: was my friend before he was my boss. But he
Speaker 3: called me up to see how I was doing, and
Speaker 3: he invited me to come and have lunch with him.
Speaker 3: So I had lunch with him and I never left,
Speaker 3: which all of which should be a lesson to you.
Speaker 3: Don't invite me over to eat because I will not leave.
Speaker 3: I'm like a stray cat. But the decision on what
Speaker 3: door to walk through has eternal implications. You have to
Speaker 3: ask yourself, not what will I do, but what will
Speaker 3: I become? What is it in my character that God
Speaker 3: wants to develop and put to use for his purposes.
Speaker 3: And the goal of all of this is one day
Speaker 3: to hear the words that Jesus said in Matthew twenty five,
Speaker 3: to hear him say these words to you, Well done,
Speaker 3: good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a
Speaker 3: few things. I will put you in charge of many things.
Speaker 3: Now let's talk about the fourth purpose of work. The
Speaker 3: fourth purpose of work is credibility. It's credibility. It's to
Speaker 3: witness to others. It's so that your words have meaning
Speaker 3: to them. It's there something backing up your words. There's
Speaker 3: on me to tell you a story. There's a man
Speaker 3: in our church, a man named Jean, successful, wealthy businessman,
Speaker 3: and a number of years ago he hired a carpenter
Speaker 3: to do some work on his house. It was a
Speaker 3: lengthy job, but Jean was impressed by the work that
Speaker 3: this man was doing. He showed up on time, he
Speaker 3: did excellent work. He cared about all the details. And finally,
Speaker 3: one day Jean started talking to this man about his
Speaker 3: work ethic.
Speaker 4: Why he did things the way he did him and.
Speaker 3: The guy said, well, it's because I'm a Christian and
Speaker 3: I do these things because it's an act of to
Speaker 3: demonstrate my faith.
Speaker 4: Jean said, I want to know more about the things
Speaker 4: you believe.
Speaker 3: So eventually the carpenter invited Jean to a small group.
Speaker 4: And Jean gave his life to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: You see, there's something about the quality of what you
Speaker 3: do that can speak so much louder than your words.
Speaker 3: There's something about the quality of your work that can
Speaker 3: actually open up doors of opportunity for you to tell
Speaker 3: your story, for you to share your faith. The combination
Speaker 3: of good work and good witness, it's your work that
Speaker 3: demonstrates what you believe, far more sometimes than what you
Speaker 3: actually have to say. It can be a very powerful
Speaker 3: testimony for you.
Speaker 4: How you do the things you.
Speaker 3: Do, especially when you're under pressure, especially when people are
Speaker 3: making unreasonable demands on you. How do you respond to
Speaker 3: those things. Let's look at a couple of verses in scripture. First,
Speaker 3: Thessalonians chapter four says this, take care of your own
Speaker 3: business and do your own work. If you do, then
Speaker 3: people who are not believers will respect you. That's what
Speaker 3: happened to Gene. Look at Tewod Corinthians, chapter six, verse four.
Speaker 3: Our work as God's servants gets validated or not in
Speaker 3: the details. People are watching us as we stay at
Speaker 3: our post, alertly, unswervingly in hard times, tough times, and
Speaker 3: bad times. So God expects us to use our work
Speaker 3: to validate our message. And you may be in a
Speaker 3: workplace where you can't share your faith openly with people,
Speaker 3: at least not in your words, but you can in the.
Speaker 4: Way that you do your work.
Speaker 3: As people see who you are, they see your character
Speaker 3: reflected in your work, then they'll start asking you who
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 4: What makes you the way you are? Look at what
Speaker 4: Jesus said in Matthew chapter five.
Speaker 3: He said, your light must shine before people so they'll
Speaker 3: see the good things you do. So you shine your
Speaker 3: light by the things you do. He says, they'll see
Speaker 3: the good things you do, and they'll praise your Father
Speaker 3: in heaven. And you may work in a place that
Speaker 3: is just the darkest place you can imagine. There may
Speaker 3: be people in your workplace who cuss enough to embarrass
Speaker 3: a sailor. You think God is surprised by that. You're going, man,
Speaker 3: how can I be a witness in a place like this, well,
Speaker 3: that's why you're there. The light always shines brightest in
Speaker 3: the darkest room. And if God has called you any
Speaker 3: place into the workplace, he doesn't call all believers to
Speaker 3: become full time pastors. That's what happened to me, probably
Speaker 3: won't happen to you. He may have something entirely different
Speaker 3: for you. But it's because God wants to scatter us,
Speaker 3: to place us throughout the darkness, throughout the world around us,
Speaker 3: to shine a light so that when people see that
Speaker 3: light and they see the good things we do, they
Speaker 3: see the good work that we do, then they want
Speaker 3: to know about our faith. Your workplace is the best
Speaker 3: place for you to share the good news about Jesus.
Speaker 3: So maybe a question we need to ask ourselves is
Speaker 3: when was the last time somebody at work asked me
Speaker 3: about my faith? And why did they ask me? Do
Speaker 3: they have reason by watching me? Do they have reason
Speaker 3: to even imagine that I must be some kind of
Speaker 3: person of faith? How would they know that if I
Speaker 3: never showed it to them. You are the only Bible
Speaker 3: that a lot of people are ever going to read.
Speaker 3: In a very real sense, you are a living Bible,
Speaker 3: and people will see your life. They'll see the life
Speaker 3: of Christ in you. They'll see the character of Christ
Speaker 3: developing through all the fertilizing at work, and they'll say, man,
Speaker 3: I don't know how you can be so patient and
Speaker 3: so hopeful and so forgiving. And that's when you have
Speaker 3: the opportunity to share your faith because you're representing Jesus
Speaker 3: in the workplace. Look at what the Bible says in
Speaker 3: Colossians chapter three. It says, whatever you do or say,
Speaker 3: let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus. Now,
Speaker 3: Pastor Rick is going to come and tell us a fifth.
Speaker 4: Purpose of work.
Speaker 2: Let's review the purposes. I work number one to meet
Speaker 2: my needs. That's necessity. I work number two to express
Speaker 2: my talent. That's an identity. I work to develop my character.
Speaker 2: That's maturity. Number four. I work to witness to others.
Speaker 2: It's a platform witness to others. That's credibility. Number five.
Speaker 2: You've probably never thought of. This one is charity. I
Speaker 2: work in order to give the money money away. I
Speaker 2: work in order to help others. I work in order
Speaker 2: to help other people in need who have a little
Speaker 2: less than I do. You maybe have never thought about this,
Speaker 2: But you can keep working in order to give more.
Speaker 2: One of the popular things to do today is to
Speaker 2: retire early, because particularly people are often involved in new
Speaker 2: businesses or investments or startups. Often they'll make as much
Speaker 2: money in a few years as their parents did in
Speaker 2: an entire lifetime. And so we have people cashing out
Speaker 2: early at thirty, at forty, at fifty years of age.
Speaker 2: They're retiring so that they don't have to work anymore
Speaker 2: at all, because they've already made more than they could
Speaker 2: possibly spend. What do you do when your own basic
Speaker 2: needs are met, Well, go ahead and retire. Then start
Speaker 2: working again for a higher purpose, a higher purpose. Keep
Speaker 2: on working, but now you're not working for a necessity
Speaker 2: or identity, working for charity, and you're working for the
Speaker 2: Kingdom of God. You keep ongoing. Actually, I've been doing this.
Speaker 2: Most of you know that I wrote purpose Driven Life
Speaker 2: that brought an enormous amount of money that scared me
Speaker 2: to death, because I'm a pretty simple guy. And I
Speaker 2: still live in the same house we've lived in, and
Speaker 2: I drive the same car I was driving ten eleven
Speaker 2: years ago. And if I've got a pair of jeans
Speaker 2: and a good t shirt. I'm pretty happy. I'm a
Speaker 2: I'm a pretty simple guy. I don't have I don't
Speaker 2: need a lot of bling and and so, uh it'sat
Speaker 2: my smile and my wife. Uh but you know, so
Speaker 2: you know I didn't need I didn't need to work anymore.
Speaker 2: But when you write a book, in the first sentence
Speaker 2: of the book is it's not about you, then you
Speaker 2: know the money he's not meant for you either. So
Speaker 2: we just gave it all away. And that was a
Speaker 2: whole lot of fun. But as you know, I I
Speaker 2: stopped taking a salary from this church ten years ago,
Speaker 2: gave all the money the church that paid me back,
Speaker 2: and so I've been your volunteer pastor for ten years. Okay, now,
Speaker 2: now you couldn't pay me to do this, But the
Speaker 2: fact is you can't fire me either. No, no, Nina,
Speaker 2: because you're not paying me, you can't fire me. So
Speaker 2: but the point is, I just keep on working. But
Speaker 2: now my motivation is not to provide for my family
Speaker 2: or provide for my kids. My motivation now is how
Speaker 2: much money can I make to give away to other
Speaker 2: people and use for the Kingdom of God. See, I've
Speaker 2: got a higher motivation now, I've retired from the younger
Speaker 2: motivations the easy way. Does this make sense? And so
Speaker 2: the higher motivation is I work for charity. I work
Speaker 2: in order to help other people who haven't been as
Speaker 2: blessed yet. Now, the Bible says this in Ephesians four.
Speaker 2: We must work. We must work doing something useful with
Speaker 2: our own hands, so that we may have something to
Speaker 2: share with those in need. This is the higher purpose
Speaker 2: of charity, so that we may have something to share
Speaker 2: with those in need. I've got a friend of mine
Speaker 2: who's a banker, and he's in his nineties, and he
Speaker 2: retired as president of his bank years ago, but in
Speaker 2: his nineties he's still making deals. I mean, he's still
Speaker 2: making deals in his nineties and making everything he touches
Speaker 2: turns to gold. And why does he do that? He
Speaker 2: doesn't need the money. He has far more money than
Speaker 2: could he possibly spend. But he's doing it for two reasons. One,
Speaker 2: it expresses his shape who he is. He's wired to
Speaker 2: do it, and he's still alive. And second, he is
Speaker 2: funding food banks in churches all over America with the
Speaker 2: prophet is that a cool vein? That's a higher goal.
Speaker 2: So he's still he just changed who he was working for,
Speaker 2: change what he was doing. Carnegie had this attitude. Andrew Carnegie,
Speaker 2: he used to say, do your living, do your giving
Speaker 2: while you're living. Then you'll be knowing where it's going.
Speaker 2: Problem is some people when it comes to giving, a
Speaker 2: lot of people just stop at nothing. It'll sink in
Speaker 2: just to hang on. Actually, they are generous. They're generous
Speaker 2: with their criticism. Now, if you want God's blessing on
Speaker 2: your business, you got to learn to be generous. If
Speaker 2: you want God's blessing on your work, you want God's
Speaker 2: blessing on your career, you want God's blessing on your vocation,
Speaker 2: you want God's blessing on your job. I'm just going
Speaker 2: to tell you from personal experience, learn to be generous.
Speaker 2: The more generous you are, the more God pours his
Speaker 2: blessing on your business, on your life, on your marriage. Why.
Speaker 2: Because God is looking for people to bless and God
Speaker 2: wants us to become like him. God is a generous God.
Speaker 2: Everything I have in life is due to the generosity
Speaker 2: of God. The air I breathe, the sun that warms me,
Speaker 2: the plans, everything is a gift of God. God says,
Speaker 2: like father, like son, like father, like daughter. He said,
Speaker 2: I want my kids to learn to be generous. And
Speaker 2: if you learn to be generous, I've played this game
Speaker 2: with God for thirty seven years. You cannot outgive him.
Speaker 2: The more you give to God, the more blessing he
Speaker 2: pours on your life. Deuteronomy eight eighteen says this, let's
Speaker 2: go well. Proverbs eleven twenty five says this, A generous
Speaker 2: man will prosper. He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Speaker 2: If you learn this principle of generosity and you start.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of businesses they don't only the
Speaker 2: owner doesn't just tithe. The business tithes. They tie. The
Speaker 2: owner tithes his personal prophet and the business ties too.
Speaker 2: And God is blessing those business is an amazing way.
Speaker 2: Deuteronomy eight eighteen says this. I'm going to read it
Speaker 2: to you. Always remember that it is the Lord your
Speaker 2: God who gives you the ability to create wealth. Might
Speaker 2: write that down Deuteronomy eight eighteen. Always remember it as
Speaker 2: the Lord your God who gives you the ability to
Speaker 2: create wealth. Did you know that the Bible doesn't teach
Speaker 2: wealth redistribution, It teaches wealth creation. The antidote to poverty
Speaker 2: is not forced redistribution. The antidote to poverty is wealth creation.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, remember it's God who gives you that ability.
Speaker 2: And so the way I honor God is by tithing
Speaker 2: back to him. And I say, God, I'm going to
Speaker 2: give you back the first ten percent because I remember
Speaker 2: it all came from you in the first place. Now,
Speaker 2: for thirty seven years, Kay and I have been playing
Speaker 2: this game, and we try to follow Paul's example. Look
Speaker 2: at the next verse, Acts twenty, verse thirty five. I've
Speaker 2: been at Paul says, I've been a constant example. I've
Speaker 2: been a constant example of how you can help the
Speaker 2: poor by working hard. How's my working hard helped the poor?
Speaker 2: And remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, It's more
Speaker 2: blessed to give than to receive. So that's the fifth
Speaker 2: purpose of work. I keep on working even after I've
Speaker 2: made enough for myself, so I can give away to others,
Speaker 2: so I can be able to help others. It's more
Speaker 2: blessed to give than receive.
Speaker 1: That was Pastor Rick Warren with his current series Doing
Speaker 1: Business with God. Right now, here's Pastor Rick with today's offer.
Speaker 2: Did you know that? And even your job matters to God,
Speaker 2: your work matters for eternity. Did you know that the
Speaker 2: Bible says in Colossians three twenty three, whatever you do
Speaker 2: that means whatever job you've got right now, work at
Speaker 2: it with all your heart as working for the Lord,
Speaker 2: not for men. You see, God gave you a special
Speaker 2: calling to your work, and he placed you around certain
Speaker 2: people so you can minister to them right there where
Speaker 2: you work. Now, whether your work is paid or volunteer,
Speaker 2: whether you work at an office or at a job site,
Speaker 2: or in your home with your kids. God has planned
Speaker 2: this work to be a ministry for you through the
Speaker 2: work you do. That's why I want to help you
Speaker 2: discover how God is at work in your work. So
Speaker 2: I put together a study kit for you. It's called
Speaker 2: Christians in the Workplace. Now. I believe this study will
Speaker 2: energize you. It'll equip you for your ministry at your work,
Speaker 2: whether you work in the home, in the office, outdoors,
Speaker 2: or anywhere around the world. This Christians in the Workplace
Speaker 2: study Kit includes a six session study guide and a
Speaker 2: DVD that I actually developed with Professor Paul Schreier. He's
Speaker 2: a professor at a ZEUSA Pacific University Christian University, and
Speaker 2: these sessions also include helpful interviews from real people who
Speaker 2: are living out their faith at work. I know it's
Speaker 2: going to help you and encourage you throughout this study
Speaker 2: Christians in the workplace. You're going to learn how God
Speaker 2: calls and equips you to do your work and why
Speaker 2: your work is a ministry. And I'll teach you to
Speaker 2: see your work as an opportunity for spiritual growth and
Speaker 2: how to develop moral and ethical character to guide you
Speaker 2: at your work. Plus, I'm going to show you how
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