MARKETPLACE FACTS
BUSY AT CHURCH - STERILE IN THE WORKPLACE Module 601 A Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
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: Sterile in the workplace
QUESTION: How do you think your marketplace colleagues view you?
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
The marketplace Greed, seduction and power games commonly prevail.Â
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
The marketplace It is into this environment that the Master Strategist has undoubtedly placed you to affect lives for His glory. Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
The marketplace
“My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one....I...pray for those who will believe in Me through their word.” (Jn. 17:15, 20) Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
The marketplace • If you happen to be a hands on achiever who is bent on getting “resultsâ€? (profit, efficiency, visibility, image, timing) you daily face the temptation of using people as pawns and bending ethical and moral absolutes.
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
The marketplace • In this high voltage setting of the marketplace, Jesus can easily be pushed into a servile role at the fringes of your operation, only to be called upon in moments of crisis.
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The funeral • “...Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” (Jn. 12:24)
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
The funeral • Only then will you be able to allow the very life of Christ to help you achieve your professional goals in a manner that is compatible with Biblical values.
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
BUSY AT CHURCH - STERILE IN THE WORKPLACE • One way many business and professional men and women rationalise their ineffectiveness at ministering in the marketplace is by busying themselves in service behind the less threatening walls of the church.
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
BUSY AT CHURCH - STERILE IN THE WORK PLACE • Ironically, the folks at work may see scant evidence in them of the life of Jesus, while the brethren at church may view them as dedicated saints!
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
THE TRUE TEST • THE TRUE TEST OF YOUR WALK WITH GOD IS NOT NECESSARILY DETERMINED BY HOW INVOLVED OR DEDICATED YOU ARE WITHIN THE CONFINES OF YOUR LOCAL CHURCH, noble as your service there may be. Rather, the test may centre in the rough and tumble climate of the “marketplace” Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Remember: We are in the transformation business • This means that we are being changed from the inside out (Romans 12:2). • It is a gradual process as we are transformed into His likeness.
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Remember: We are in the transformation business • Jesus Christ has sent us into the world to give the message of transformation (John 17:18).
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
We are in the transformation business • We are to bring our world to God (I Corinthians 5:19). • We will be changed because of Christ working in and through us (I Corinthians 15:52).
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
We are in the transformation business • The secret is Christ within each of us (Colossians 1:27). • It is His power that works in us, not our own (Ephesians 3:20). • It is through Christ that we become competent (II Corinthians 3:46), ministers (II Corinthians 5:18), and free (Romans 8:2). Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
We are in the transformation business • Through Him we are transformed not into someone who is better but someone who is completely different (II Corinthians 5:17). • We literally are changed from ugly selfish caterpillars into beautiful butterflies that can bring glory to Him. • He alone is our source of power and strength (II Corinthians 12:9, Acts 1:8). Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Is Christ at work in your life, your company, and your world? Are you as a leader being transformed by Christ?
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Is Christ at work in your life, your company, and your world? Is your company different than other companies because of Christ being at work within your life and the lives of your coworkers? Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Is Christ at work in your life, your company, and your world? Have you become more of a steward of your company and less of an owner?
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Is Christ at work in your life, your company, and your world? Is your focus more on the eternal than the temporal? Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Are you standing out for Christ in the workplace?
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
SO THE QUESTION AGAIN: How do you think your marketplace colleagues view you? Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
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: Sterile in the workplace
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: Sterile in the workplace
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: Sterile in the workplace
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Programme Director - Marketplace
Let's keep the good marketplace vibes alive. Let's network. Become a member of the Crown Companies Marketplace Coaching Forum. Â Tel (w) + 27(0) 82 88 29903. e-mail address:mario@crown.org.za Website: www.crown.org.za Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace
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Marketplace facts: Sterile in the workplace