MARKETPLACE FACTS
CHARACTER AND COMPETENCE Module 305 A Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Character and
Marketplace facts: Character and
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.
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Character and competence Character and competence are the two primary ingredients of companies of excellence. Marketplace facts: Character and
Character and competence • Arthur Schopenhauer reminds us that: “men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on guard. It is in insignificant matters, and in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others, and denies nothing to itself.â€? Marketplace facts: Character and
Character and competence • “Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation…The real struggle is here... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your… temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, longcontinued process.” (Philip Brooks) Marketplace facts: Character and
Character and competence • Character is that force that enables an individual to carry out a resolution once the mood in which that resolution was born has died.
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Character and competence • God’s idea of character is summarised in Psalm 51:6: “[He desires] truth in the inner parts…”
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Character and competence • Ask yourself, “Are you choosing to put a check on our thoughts, motives and actions in not allowing yourself a modicum of compromise?”
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Character and competence • Perhaps a guideline on how we should deal with our competitors, service our customers, and handle contracts and finances is summed up “WWJD”: “What would Jesus do?” Or as I John 2:6 puts it, “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.” Marketplace facts: Character and
Character and competence • To do what Jesus would do, we must aspire to become the kind of person who will naturally do what Jesus would do if he were in our situation.
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Character and competence • Richard Foster states, “It is a question of preparation and training, the question of spiritual disciplines and holy habits. • When we are on the spot, when we are faced with the situation, it is too late because regardless of what we think Jesus would do, we will do what our nature and habits have trained us to do.” Marketplace facts: Character and
Character and competence • QUESTION: Are you electing, day-by-day…moment-by-moment, to prepare yourself, characterwise in the little things to respond as would Jesus…for the time when the heat is really on? If not, why not?
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Competence. • QUESTION: Do your peers – those men and women in the work place who are outside of Christ see you as a person of competence and excellence who knows his craft and is giving it 100%?
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Competence. • QUESTION: Do your peers see you as someone who is just getting by; marginally qualified; and as a person who conveniently bends the rules when it is deemed necessary?” • How does your example affect their response to things Christian? Marketplace facts: Character and
Competence. • John Gardner reminds us that “the society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. • Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” Marketplace facts: Character and
Competence. God puts a high premium on competence and excellence.
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Competence. • After completing His creation, He “saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31a) Of the craftsmen who worked on the tabernacle it is recorded
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Competence. • “[God]…filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, designers, embroiders in blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and weavers--all of them master craftsmen and designers.” (Ex 35:35) The term master craftsman here conveys the idea of one utilising imagination, inventiveness, purpose, thought, and intention. (See Ex. 26:1, 31; 28:6, 15) Marketplace facts: Character and
Competence. • “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” (William A. Foster)
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May I ask you a few questions?
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Question 1 • Do you go the extra mile in getting the job done, even when it means no one else will know about it? Marketplace facts: Character and
Question 2 • Do you attack everything you do with fervour, performing at the highest level possible? Marketplace facts: Character and
Question 3 • Do you follow through‌ until the job is completed? With excellence? Whatever the cost? Marketplace facts: Character and
Question 4 Are you making every effort to stay current in your profession? Or is it business as usual? Marketplace facts: Character and
Psalm 50:15 (Living Bible) • I want you to trust Me in your times of trouble, so I can rescue you. - We all face tough times. - Tough times also represent opportunities. - It gives us an opportunity to trust God.Marketplace facts: Character and
Psalm 50:15 (Living Bible) • As we trust Him, He can come and rescue us. PRAYER: Lord, I place my full and complete trust in You. Deliver and rescue me I pray. Amen.
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Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the m arketplace. 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: Character and
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25
• “Do not m erely 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 m irror 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: Character and
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: Character and
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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