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No part of our lives should remain untouched by our faith. Yet the the ability to make changes in our lives that are not only obedient single biggest consumer of our time (our job) often does remain dis- to God’s commands in the Scriptures, but also more useful in His connected from that faith. Kingdom. How it got to be that way is a question for another time. The question Drawing from the principles outlined in the Bible, Christians have for now is how we integrate our faith and our work so everything we an opportunity to experience a faith that teaches them much more do is affected by our service to Jesus Christ. than just how to share that faith with other people. Whenever a person makes faith a separate part of their lives and ex- The same Scriptures that tell us how to find our way back to God cludes work from having a role in that faith, that same faith may be also teach us how to deal with difficult coworkers or bosses, how to rendered all but useless in the Kingdom of God. behave ethically in an environment not necessarily friendly to our faith, how to balance the competing demands of work and famiGenesis 2:7 describes the perfect world God created, one in which ly, how to define success, how to use our resources effectively, and work had a place. True, work became more difficult as a result of much, much more. sin’s entry into creation, but it is clear from Scripture that work itself has a place in the Kingdom of God. In passages throughout the Old In fact, there’s no area of our work lives (indeed, no area of our lives and New Testament, the value of a person’s work to the Kingdom of at all) that can’t be touched by the Bible. It isn’t that God isn’t there God can be viewed. with us on the job, it’s that we’ve been conditioned to believe He isn’t there. The goal then, is to break down the barriers between our Sunday faith and our Monday work so our faith is woven into the fabric of As noted Christian apologist Francis Schaeffer reminded us, God is our entire life, including the jobs we do the rest of the week. The there and He is not silent…and He’s heard most clearly through His key to doing that is restoring the Word of God—the Bible—to its Word. rightful place as a key source for action, a key guide for living and serving, even in our work lives. Written by Randy Kilgore, senior writer and workplace chaplain for Desired Haven Ministries. Content distributed byWorkLife.org. Our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior restores the broken relationship between God and us. That restored relationship gives us
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