In this essay, I write what I learned from the reading of Business Through the Eyes of Faith by Richard C. Chewning, John W. Eby, and Shirley J. Roels. The book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. I will also use The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Workbook, by Covey, The 16 personality types: Descriptions for self-discovery by Berens, L. V., & Nardi, D., Myers-Briggs type indicator (Form M) by Briggs, K. C., & Myers, I. B., and finally the Learning style inventory (Version 3.1) by Kolb, D. A. by using these books and personally evaluations. I will answer the following questions. What is the biblical basis? What is the biblical view on work? What right do we have to control material things? How does time …show more content…
Chewning, Eby, & Roels state in their book Business Through the Eyes of Faith, “Business is, after all, and institutionalization of God’s intention for us to work and serve each other” they go on to say, “It affords us opportunities to plan, organize, lead, follow, and develop skills in a number of areas – all mirroring godly qualities.” (p 7) To be redemptive agents of God, bring the message of salvation. Which has been offered to us, by the life, death and resurrection of God’s beloved and only son Jesus Christ. A biblical view of work and vocation The Bible affirms in Genesis 20:9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work.” (NIV) We are to work with all of heart, put everything into it for we are not working for ourselves or others. We are working for God. Just look at Colossians 3:23 “Whatever you do, work at with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not human masters.” (NIV) The Bible is full of commands for us to work. Found in Proverbs 14:23, “All hard work leads to profit, but mere talk leads to poverty.” (NIV) Also found in Proverbs 28:19, “Those who work their land will have an abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.” (NIV) We are to use our work and business to honor God. Work and working is an important and vital part of being human. The word “work” or “working” appears five hundred and fifty-five times in the NIV Bible. That just goes to
Macbeth, the play was one of Shakespeare's bloody and goriest tragedies. It was based on a true story of the Celtic throne. It is a play about murder, power, ambition, greed and deception.
This strategy should focus on the vision, mission and culture of the company in a Christian perspective. Managers should focus their company principles on integrity and excellence. Companies with integrity concentrate their goals in doing the right thing instead of work for a profit from their customers, these organization with integrity will make its business decisions based on the standards and principles of God righteousness, truth and honesty. Companies that focus on excellence as their main point has a commitment to offer an excellent service to their customers and make them feel valuable to the company, this type of strategy make them extremely successful in the business world. Therefore, organizations with these types of Christian principles is more likely to success. Their purpose of doing the right thing for their communities give them an advantage on the business market. Also, the appreciation of hard work is rewarded in different areas as fair compensation, performance recognition, and providing growth opportunities, both professionally and personally to their workers. It has been determined that organizations that recognize the needs of their people and create opportunities for them to fulfill those needs are able to bring out the very best in
Stapleford presents a strong analysis of economic issues with a Christian perception that aligns with Biblical truths. He urges his audience to avoid the temptation of idolatry and materialism but to live a selfless life of sacrifice. Stapleford claims that “there is sanctity in all of labor, and without God’s involvement human labor is futile. In whatever we do, Christians are to do it heartily as unto the Lord, for we do not labor for the food that perishes but for the food that endures to everlasting life” (Stapleford, 2009).
Every Good Endeavor, by Timothy Keller, throughout chapters three and four, hit several important topics about the acts of work. Initially, Keller talks of culture and how it's a biblical principle to fill and subdue the earth we live in. Merely reproducing is not what defines culture, but the acts of work that bring civilization. The word itself, subdue, means a real assertion of will. Basically, placing work where able. God himself designed the word to need work, the fruit of work brings us riches and potential. Work also brings growth, not only for others but for ourselves. God sees work as to Him and to our neighbors. In terms, work is essentially an act of worship. God gives us all the resources we need to cultivate the earth. In example,
In Timothy Keller's Every Good Endeavor, we learn in chapter one, "The Design of Work,” that work is not a necessary evil, but a necessity to survive and a key to living a full life. Work allows us to discover our talents, abilities, and gifts in order to help us better understand who we are. Keller also pointed out the importance of rest. While we should not mistake our days of rest as days of laziness and work as a burdensome command, we should neither allow work to rule over our lives either. God designed us to work, to have jobs, but He also designed us to rest. He designed us for rest not simply to strengthen us back up for the job again, but because He too rested. Rest and what we do while we rest is a life-giving experience, while work
The film Harsh Beauty explores the life of individuals who challenge the gender binary and the way the go through life trying to be accepted for who they are. This individual are from Bombay a city in India where a community of this kind of individuals live. In India they are call Eunuch, which means intersexual. This individuals are usually born as males but with the pass of the years they discover that the gender they were assigned is not who they are. Most of them run out of their house in order to fully become a Eunuch. They travel to Bombay where the community of Eunuch live and go through a surgery done by a guru. In this surgery their genitals are removed with no medicine or anesthesia, just a hot oil that according to them helps them heal. After their sugery there is a ceremony where many Eunuch from all over the city come and join.
The book, “Business for the Glory of God”, By Wayne Grudem, is a book that gives insight to how business as a whole can be a blessing to the world. God gave His people abilities to conduct business in order to glorify Him. Grudem explains that business and the attributes of business are “fundamentally good” and provides many opportunities for glorifying God, but also many temptations to sin. He gives a biblical and moral standing point
According to Duzer (2012), In pursuit of God’s purpose, people need to understand the ethical limitations embedded naturally in design of the God’s creation. It is not enough too simply align our businesses purposes with God earthly design, without limitation we still fall short of Gods expectations. God’s creation purpose for business includes businesses that serve the community in a positive way that strides to serve all citizens according to God’s plan. For example, a business might be able to produce more goods and services that would enable the community to flourish. It might create more vocationally rich jobs for its employees by disregarding its duty to provide return to its shareholders (Duzer,
The certain morality of the lawful pursuit of wealth gives businessmen both a clear conscience and the ability to employ motivated workers who themselves constantly labor for the glory of God. The businessmen’s conscience is further cleared by the thought that the unequal distribution of goods is part of God’s plan – it is God’s secret choice to bestow grace as he wishes. The workers “calling”, in contrast, is to labor regardless of the wage, striving to glorify God and secure status as the elect. The ascetic lifestyle of a poor worker is also glorified, as the worker lives as the apostles once did. The attitudes of both the businessmen and the worker in the modern economic relationship naturally flow from ascetic Protestantism.
Summary The Jesus Life Coach book by Laurie Beth Jones helped me as a life coach to understand how to help my agents infuse their spiritual values into their personal lives and at the work place. The book displays four key principles of infusing the spiritual life to create a balance, formulate goals, enjoy productivity, as well as attain fulfillment of one’s personal goals and heavenly success. Jones’ (1798) book has a wealth of information and inspiration that will motivate one to excel and enjoy all walks of life. Jones uses spiritual values to get you thinking, working, and achieving all your goals and dreams.
Through these nine key concepts, Dr. Grudem illustrates how a variety of business techniques, when implemented in a Godly manner, allow those to pose certain characteristics of God. Grudem isn’t naïve, though. He does, after all, explain that in every aspect of business there are multiple layers of opportunities to give glory to God, as well as multiple temptations to sin (Grudem, 2003, p. 17). He is also aware about the easy ways these activities can be perverted and used as a means to sin ("Business for the," 2003). This book is tailored to echo God’s glory in relation to correlation with employees, co-workers, customers, and other businesses involved in the business unity. Furthermore, it does not only promote a positive impact within the business realm, but also in the personal realm of one’s life in business.
1984 "So stay in that house, eating and drinking the things they provide, for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not be transferring from house to house." {NWT Luke 10:7} [But this Scripture verse speaking against house-to-house work, is not quoted in the index of the 1984
Timothy Keller brings the entire idea of work into a perspective that I have never considered to explore. The fact that work was not a product of the fall of man really didn't cross my mind until Keller highlighted it as a product of God himself.
Stephen R. Covey’s self-help book is an influential communication for personal change. He advises building from the inside-out and offers a plan for moving from dependence to independence and then to interdependence. The inside-out approach starts first with one self, which includes paradigms, characters, and motivations. To improve relationships with others, we have to first improve ourselves by putting character ahead of personality.
In various cultures in the era before Christ, the material world was thought impermanent and inferior to the mental and spiritual world, but work was not disdained. The Buddha in the sixth century B.C. said that people suffer because they thirst for material things and physical pleasures, and that the