Glorifying God at Work — No Matter the Job
"What is the chief end of man?" The answer: "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever."
This includes Monday through Friday.
Barrett Duke unpacks what it looks like to "go therefore and take your job with you" in the context of Scriptural references. He walks from creation to Paul as examples of how to glorify God at work.
Barrett Duke is vice president for public policy and research of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter, Facebook, and in your email.
Publication date: May 16, 2013
Calling and Vocation
"But in the Bible, the concept of calling goes deeper than any one aspect of life, such as work. God calls people to become united with himself in every aspect of life. This can only occur as a response to Christ’s call to follow him. The calling to follow Christ lies at the root of every other calling. It is important, however, not to confuse a calling to follow Christ with a calling to become a professional church worker. People in every walk of life are called to follow Christ with equal depth and commitment."
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Workplace Evangelism Abroad Begins with Workplace Evangelism at Home
In this article from IMB, Sebastian Traeger writes about workplace evangelism. Sometimes the idea can become romanticized in our minds and is something we say we will do in the future, but it actually begins now wherever we are. Traeger not only discusses this idea, but also gives four ways to provoke Gospel conversations with the people at work.
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The Whole of the Whole Gospel
"In nothing has the church so lost Her hold on reality as in Her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a result, the secular work of the world is turned to purely selfish and destructive ends, and that the greater part of the world’s intelligent workers have become irreligious, or at least, uninterested in religion. But is it astonishing? How can anyone remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life? The church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays."
Written over 60 years ago by Dorothy Sayers, this quote is just as crucial for us to understand today and is expounded upon by Timothy Liu in his recent article for the Lausanne Movement.
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