The 9 to 5 Window by Os Hillman
4 Attributes & the 4 Types of Christians
Session 2
Lost on an Island
Two Pillars of the Temple Priest
Businessman/King Kinsman Redeemer
Jakin
Boaz
It establishes.
In it is strength.
1 Kings 7:21-22 The pillar to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.
4 Types of Christians In the Workplace 1. Survivor • •
80% dissatisfied with their jobs, 50% among executives. - Wall Street Journal
2. Principles 3. Holy Spirit 4. Transformer Ed Silvoso
Key Issues/Barriers 1. 2. 3. 4.
Sacred/Secular Equality in Calling Defining Ministry Local Church as an Equipper
1. Sacred Secular - Influence Greek Philosophers vs Hebraic Roots. • Greeks acquired wisdom by reason and analysis. • Hebrews acquired wisdom by obedience. Ps. 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. • Early church understood that knowledge was not what changed the world, it was the power of God working through people.
2. Equality in Calling Unspoken, implied hierarchy of spiritual calling.
Pastor Missionary Church Worker Stay-at-home mom Plumber
CEO/Executive
Scum of the Earth
Ad Agency Executive r! e y w La
3. Defining Ministry: Vocational Ministry?
“Usually a person should keep on with the work he was doing when God called him.� I Cor. 7: 20 TLB
3. Defining Ministry & Success Paradigm Shifts Required: How we define success. Pastor • • •
Attendance Programs (inside 4 walls) Budget
Versus (God’s Economy) • • •
Maturity of believers - equipping men & women to fulfill THEIR destinies City impact Kingdom projects
DNA change
Business Owner • • • •
Increased market share Competitive advantage Increased profits Wealth building for the individual
Versus (God’s Economy) • • • •
Discovering God’s purpose for the business Funding Kingdom enterprises Pastoring employees Blessing your city
4 Attributes of a Transformational Workplace Leader
2. Ethics/Integrity Ps 51 “Truth in the inward parts… parts…
Spiritual Homerun
Daniel 6
4 Attributes of a Work Life Minister
“So distinguished himself …“ Dan. 6:1 God’s Call
3. Extravagant Love/Service
1.Excellence
“Whoever wants to become great among you…” Mt. 20:27 Ship captain
“Apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders…” Acts 5:12
worker
4. Signs & Wonders
Gospel of the Kingdom!
Obedience Cycle Convenience Crisis Conviction Outcome-based Obedience
Pain-Motivated Obedience
Kingdom of Love-motivation
God Manifested!
Intimacy Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matt 22:37-40
3 Phase Obedience Cycle Convenience Crisis Conviction My business, my way.
My business. His way.
His business, my way.
s. e s a e r c e d n o i t re c s i d l a n o Pers
His business, His way! Manifest His Glory!
Moses’ Strategy to Lead a People If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you (knowledge) and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people." The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. Exodus 33:13-16
4. Local Church as an Equipper: Congregations are Called to Equip Believers for Societal Transformation
Local Church Mandate – Equip the Saints for Ministry in the Marketplace • Eph 4:11-13 • It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
England “We are convinced that England will never be converted until the laity use the opportunities daily afforded by their various professions, crafts and occupations.� Towards the Conversion of England (1945)
Church Attendance England Just After WWII 30% (1945)
2006
7%
United States 40% (1950)
2006
30%
Lack of Training in Local Church Consider:
• 90% have not been trained to apply Biblical faith in their work life. –Doug Sherman, Your Work Matters to God
• 47% say preaching is irrelevant to daily life. –London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
Battleship or Cruise Liner? Aircraft Carrier Battleship?
Luxury Cruise Liner?
Result? The Church of Jesus looks more like a luxury cruise liner instead of a battleship designed to equip and commission an army. ‌to prepare God's people for works of service. . Eph 4:11
You are called to be a transformational workplace leader
“Why the Peanut?”
• 300 marketable products invented from the peanut. • 100 marketable products from the sweet potato
George Washington Carver 1861 - 1943
Jeremiah Lanphier -1857
• A Church on Fulton Street – New York City • Noon-day prayer meetings – 6 in first meeting • 10,000 meeting daily within 6 months. Sept 21,2007 th 150 • Spread through the US and abroad Anniversary • 1 million came to Christ! • Affected every sphere of life Equivalent salvations today: 30 million!
Faith@Work in Media NY Times Magazine Oct 31, ‘04 • Over 100 salvations
Over 100 salvations, physical healings, prayer with customers
Taxi-cab Driver Transforms His Workplace • • • • • • • •
Joe, a taxi-cab driver in Philippines– salvation Went to bar and drank a Coke Befriended bartender – homosexual, pimp – came to Christ. Got radically saved! 65 prostitutes came to Christ Small group Bible study in bar Owner got saved Bar became a church 10 cell groups in the neighborhood formed • Source: Anointed for Business, Ed Silvoso, p.118
Legal Rights at Work You Can… •
Express your values in your business to employees and vendors
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Express values in advertising
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Discriminate for religious purposes for under 15 employees
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Engage in religious speech at work as long as there is no actual imposition on co-workers or disruption of the work routine.
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If other employees are permitted to use electronic mail and screen savers for speech that is not related to work, an employee who has a sincerely held religious belief to communicate their faith with others is also free to use these modes of communication.
Certain state’s laws are different.
. . .Legal Rights
You Can’t… •
Discriminate for religious purposes for over 15 employees
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A company that allows employees to engage in non-work related conversations, such as those about politics, family, sports or other such topics, may not prohibit voluntary religious discussions between employees either.
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Allow religious discussions to interfere with work.
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Any employer—public or private—may restrict employee conversations with clients, patients or customers about religion.
Study Group Questions 1. Name the four attributes of a workplace witness that are cited in this chapter. 2. Read Daniel 1:19-20 and 6:1-3. What type of workers were Daniel and his friends? 3. Read John 14:12. What does it mean to “do what Jesus did� in the context of your working life? Do miracles replace your work ethic? How would you define the importance of both concepts?