I had the opportunity to speak to a wonderful group at Truth in Love Counseling on living out our faith at work. This is part 5 of a five-part series inspired by that talk.
Here are some additional ways I personally tried to integrate my faith with my work. Hopefully they will be helpful to you as well:

Connect with Your Team Members and Co-Workers. Get to Know Them as People, not just for the Role they Play in the Workplace. 

As a leader, my first meeting with a new team member was always just about them, not about the work (unless they specifically addressed it). I called these “Getting to Know You” meetings. I wanted to know about them, their families, etc., basically what was important to them. How can you lead and serve someone if you don’t know what is significant to them?

One of my favorite leadership authors is John Maxwell. He has said that the people on your team won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. We should be leaders who are known to care about their team members and co-workers. We should see them as people with families, dreams, goals and concerns, and not resources. Continue reading →

I had the opportunity to speak to a wonderful group at Truth in Love Counseling on living out our faith at work. This is part 4 of a five-part series inspired by that talk.

Here are some additional ways I personally tried to integrate my faith with my work. Hopefully they will be helpful to you as well:

Serve as a mentor. I’m a big proponent of the value of mentoring relationships, and never turned anyone down who wanted to enter into a mentoring relationship with me at work or a discipling relationship at church. A mentor is someone with more or different experiences that they can share with a mentee. Still, I always learned from those who sought me out as a mentor. I see mentoring as a way of giving back and pouring myself into others just as my career mentor poured himself into me. Continue reading →

Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to a wonderful group at Truth in Love Counseling on living out our faith at work. This five-part series is inspired by that talk.

Biblical Value of Work
Let’s talk about how we can live out our faith at work. That is, how can we integrate our faith and work? It’s a question that perhaps some of you have thought about, and I think one that all believers would like to know how to do better.
Many books have been written on this topic, with new ones being published all the time. There is even a breakout session titled  “Living the Gospel at Work” that will be offered at next April’s  Gospel Coalition National Conference to be held in Indianapolis, a conference I would highly recommend.
I recently read an article which stated:
“At its best, the faith and work movement gives a deep dignity to those who need to know why God cares about what they do all day, why the daily grind matters, how God uses their efforts as part of a tapestry of common good, an outworking of Jeremiah’s vision to seek the good of the city to which God has called us.”
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