MARKETPLACE FACTS
Eight Questions To Ask When Facing Ethical Decisions Module 307 N Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
Marketplace facts: 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: Ethical decisions
Ethical challenge 1: IS IT PERMISSIBLE?
Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
#1 IS IT PERMISSIBLE (If there is a clear Biblical command against it, then it is not permissible)
Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
#1 IS IT PERMISSIBLE • “The man who says, ‘I know him,’ but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. … You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love…” (1 Jn 2:4; Gal 5:13) Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
Ethical challenge 2: WILL IT LEAD TO PEACE AND MUTUAL EDIFICATION?
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#2 WILL IT LEAD TO PEACE AND MUTUAL EDIFICATION? • “Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification…If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” (Rom.14:19; 12:18)
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Ethical challenge 3: WILL IT BUILD UP OTHER PEOPLE?
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#3 WILL IT BUILD UP OTHER PEOPLE? • Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others…Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.” (I Cor 10:24; Rom 15:2)
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Ethical challenge 4: IS IT PROFITABLE (BENEFICIAL)?
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#4 IS IT PROFITABLE (BENEFICIAL)? • “All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.” (I Cor.10:23 - NASB)
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Ethical challenge 5: IS IT CONSTRUCTIVE?
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#5 IS IT CONSTRUCTIVE? • “Love…looks for a way of being constructive…Love builds up.”(I Cor. 13:4b–Phillips; I Cor. 8:1b)
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Ethical challenge 6: DOES IT HAVE THE GOOD OF OTHERS AT HEART?
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#6 DOES IT HAVE THE GOOD OF OTHERS AT HEART? • “Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others…Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” (1 Cor.10:24; Phil. 2:3, 4)
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Ethical challenge 7: WILL IT CAUSE OTHERS TO STUMBLE?
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#7 WILL IT CAUSE OTHERS TO STUMBLE? • “Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God -- even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved…” (1 Cor. 10:32, 33) (See I Cor.8:9; Rom.14:13) Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
Ethical challenge 8: DOES IT GLORIFY GOD?
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#8 DOES IT GLORIFY GOD? •
“…Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God…” (1 Cor. 10:31)
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Jeremiah 18:6 • As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand. - God wants to work in our lives. - As a potter works with clay, so God wants to work with us.
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Jeremiah 18:6 • The question is: will we allow God to work? Entrust your life to God and He will work things out! PRAYER: Lord, I place my life in Your hands. I pray that You will work in me so that something wonderful will be produced. Amen Marketplace facts: 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: 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: 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: Ethical decisions
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Ethical decisions
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