MARKETPLACE FACTS
DEMONSTRATING YOUR FAITH IN THE WORKPLACE Module 402 A Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various market place facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the market place. • Adapt and benchmark your market place practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
Demonstrating your faith in the workplace • Use this tool to determine how evident your faith is to those in your company, community and family • Take the test from time to time • Compare the results for progress • Be accountable for the commitments to changes you want to make Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
James 2: 15 15-17 • Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go , I wish you well: keep warm and well fed, “ but does nothing about his physically needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
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Most of my employees know that I am a Christian.
Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
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Most of my clients know that I am a Christian.
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Most of my vendors know that I am a Christian.
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I provide a great witness to my employees and treat them with concern for their personal growth and spiritual welfare.
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I provide a great witness to my clients by providing excellent products/service and serving them in a way that honors God
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I provide a great witness to my vendors by treating them well and paying them in a very timely fashion
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I provide a good witness in my home and demonstrate my commitment to my family by giving them the best of my time, energy and focus
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I pray for my employees, clients and vendors every day
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I pray regularly for my competitors
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Question 10
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Under my leadership, people have found Christ
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Under my leadership, people in my organisation have grown closer to Christ
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If any of my employees, clients and/or vendors saw a bible on my desk, they wouldn’t be surprised
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When a friend or family members contacts me in need, I always make myself available to them, even when it is very inconvenient
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I arrange for employee prayer time before, after and during business hours
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My business provides me with evangelistic opportunities
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I believe employees are “ called” to my business. I seek God’s guidance in understanding why they have arrived
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When someone congratulates me on my business success, I always give credit to God
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I believe that any success I have is purely a result of God’s blessing, and is not the result of my hard work and/ or talents
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If the local newspaper called and asked to feature me in a business article, I would make sure I gave all the glory to God
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I allow God to run my business, staying out of His way
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Question 21
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I seek God’s counsel on important business decisions
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I seek God’s counsel on everyday decisions
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I believe that the business belongs to God and I operate as a good steward of His business
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I see my business purely as a ministry of Christ
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My Pastor/ Reverend .. And people I know in church see my business as a ministry
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I share the challenges and victories in my business with Jesus every day in prayer
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Overall results
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Let’s start praying
65
Getting started
130
Faithful in little things
195
On the right path
260
A true blessing
Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
Discuss the results • Re take the test from time to time • Discuss what you will do with results • Shine your light of the good news throughout the workplaces of the world
Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
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: Demonstrating your faith
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: Demonstrating your faith
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
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Marketplace facts: Demonstrating your faith
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