MARKETPLACE FACTS
Module 105 A THE WORLD OF WORK Mario Denton Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Do you tend to view the world of work A place of necessary drudgery A spot where you can bolster your sense of self-importance
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Do you tend to view the world of work • An escape from reality, yourself, family responsibilities
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Do you tend to view the world of work • A place where for 40-50 hours a week, you venture from your private castle into the evil empire to pay your dues in order to collect your compensation
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Think radically different about our world of work • Instead of running from it, we need to rush into it. • Instead of just hanging outside the fringes of our culture, we need to be right smack dab in the middle of it
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Why is it so many believers in Christ are so abysmally ineffective for God in the workplace?
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Could it be • Could it be that “too many…have given the Gospel a bad reputation by their crude, insensitive, soapbox approach to evangelism?... • What’s worse, many do it without a lifestyle and work style to back it up. The order is terribly important! Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Start by being the best worker you can be, and gain the respect of your peers.
• Match that work style with a lifestyle so unique and distinctive that your co-workers will want to know why. • If that happens, you’ll probably have plenty of opportunities to discuss your faith.
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Engage the lost If we are to be effective witnesses for Christ in today’s rough and tumble world of commerce, then we will need to engage the lost Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Effective witnesses • View sharing their faith with others as a process, rather than an event. • So instead of preaching, they look for opportunities to meet needs.
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Effective witnesses • Instead of forcing God into conversations, they live lives of integrity, grace and compassion, to the point that those around them can’t help but wonder what makes them different.
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Effective witnesses • Viewing themselves as Gospel salesmen • They think of themselves as consultants, interested only in helping others and adding eternal value to their lives.
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Effective witnesses • Understand what Christ meant when He talked about being salt and light in a tasteless and dark world, and they live it – day in, day out. • They live it when they talk respectfully to their spouse on the phone at work. Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Effective witnesses • They live it through their reaction when someone else gets the promotion they wanted. • They live it when they do their work – from the most menial task to the largest project – cheerfully and to the absolute best of their ability Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Jesus: "Come, follow me and I will make you fishers of men ‌Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.� (Matt. 4:19; 5:16)
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Be prepared • Paul: “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. • But do this with gentleness and respect… • Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Don't miss a trick • • • •
Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.” (I Pet. 3:15b; Col. 4:5, 6 – Msg.)
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My days are swifter • My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey…Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom… (Job 9:25,26; Ps. 90:12) (See Job 7:6,7; 14:1,2; Ps. 39:4,5; 89:47; I Pet. 1:24)
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Time for reflection How do you tend to view the world of work right now?
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: The world of Work
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Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
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Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Marketplace facts: The world of Work
Marketplace facts: The world of Work