Graduating from a Christian high school and college, I'd been in a non-secular world for more than half my life. One thing that was difficult for me to grasp as I decided on what kind of job I wanted was how to merge my personal faith with a mainstream job.
This week we have several new faces around our office. We don't know each other very well yet, but I'm hopeful we will soon enough. I think these five things are a really good reminder of what I can strive for each day as I go into my office.
"I have in mind at least five things—five ways to make God known through your secular job and all of them are important. When one of them is missing, the witness to the truth of Christ suffers.
1. The excellence of the products or services you render in your job shows the excellence and greatness of God.
2. The standards of integrity you follow at your job show the integrity and holiness of God.
3. The love you show to people in your job shows the love of God.
4. The stewardship of the money you make from your job shows the value of God compared to other things.
5. The verbal testimony you give to the reality of Christ shows the doorway to all these things in your life and their possibility in the lives of others."
Excerpted from "Tentmakers" in Minneapolis. John Piper, 1988.
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