307 M Facing tough ethical decisions

MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 307 M

FACING TOUGH ETHICAL DECISIONS? Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

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: Facing tough ethical decisions

Facing Tough Ethical Decisions?

Then consider these thirteen questions:

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

1. Have you defined the problem accurately?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

2. How would you define the problem if you stood on the other side of the fence?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

3. How did this situation occur in the first place?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

4. Who was involved in this situation in the first place?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

5. What is your intention in making this decision?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

6. How does this intention compare with the likely results?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

7. Who could your decision or action injure?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

8. Can you engage the affected parties in a discussion of the problem before you make your decision?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

9. Are you confident that your position will be as valid over a long period as it seems now?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

10. Could you disclose, without qualms, your decision or action to your boss, your CEO, the board of directors, your family or society as a whole?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

11. What is the symbolic potential of your action if understood?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

12. Under what conditions would you allow exceptions to your stand?

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

13. What would Jesus do? “Righteousness exalts a people, but sin is a disgrace to any people.� (Prov. 14:34)

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

1 Corinthians 1:8 • He will keep you strong right up to the end!

- Your faithful God promises to strengthen you.

- Finishing strong should be our goal.

- We do make mistakes and God is ready to forgive.

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

1 Corinthians 1:8 • God wants to keep you and strengthen you.

PRAYER: Lord, I receive Your strength. I desire to finish my race in a way that is honouring to You. Help me I pray. Amen.

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

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: Facing tough ethical decisions

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: Facing tough ethical decisions

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: Facing tough ethical decisions

Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

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Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

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Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions

Marketplace facts: Facing tough ethical decisions