Transforming Your

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• Transforming Your
• Workplace for Christ

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How do we define the workplace?
Government
Home
Business
Education

Wherever you work!
Social Society
Media Entertainment
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Problem?

• Lack of understanding that our work is a calling
  and ministry.

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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord, not for men, since you
know that you will receive an inheritance from
the Lord as a reward. Colossians 323,24

• What the Bible says though is

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• May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon
  us establish the work of our hands for us--yes,
  establish the work of our hands.
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  Ps 9017
• Take your everyday, ordinary lifeyour
  sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and
  walking-around lifeand place it before God as an
  offering. Romans 12 1,
  (The Message)
• God has called you and me to reveal His glory
  through our work!

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Brother Lawrence monk, dishwasher

• For me the time of activity does not differ
  from the time of prayer, and in the noise and
  clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are
  calling for as many different things, I possess
  God in as great a tranquility as when upon my
  knees at the blessed Sacrament.Practicing the
  Presence of God, 1600s
• He found no urgency for retreats, because in
  the common task he met the same God to love and
  worship as he did in the stillness of the desert.

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The Future

• We will begin to see corporations take a more
  proactive acceptance of faith and work issues.
• We will see prayer begin to impact the
  workplaces.
• We will see our cities transformed because those
  in authority will be impacted with the gospel and
  will become active and passionate about their
  faith where they work.

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Future

• We will begin to see faith expressed in
  government agencies, the entertainment
  industries, education and corporate workplaces.
  We will see more Christian-based initiatives as a
  result.
• We will hear of miracles in the marketplace
  because the movement will be led by Christians
  who are willing to move in faith and obedience
  into arenas that previously were seen as taboo.

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• Where did Jesus spend most of His
  Time?
• Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace
  context.
• Of 40 miracles in the book of Acts, 39 were in
  the marketplace.
• Jesus equipped 12 from the workplace.
• Jesus spent more than 50 his adult life as a
  carpenter before he went into a preaching
  ministry in the workplace.

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What is your perception of what defines a
Christian in the workplace?
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4 Attributes of the Workplace Witness God
Is Raising Up Today
1. Excellence
4.Signs wonders
2.Ethics/Integrity
3.Extravagant Love/Service
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1. Excellence

• It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to
  rule throughout the kingdom, with three
  administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel.
  Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the
  administrators and the satraps by his exceptional
  qualities that the king planned to set him over
  the whole kingdom. (Dan 61-3).
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2. Ethics/Integrity

• Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
  and in the hidden part You will make me to know
  wisdom (Ps 516).

God is raising up a new kind of leader that has
great anointing and great integrity.
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3. Extravagant Love Service

• whoever wants to become great among you must
  be your servant (Mt. 2027).

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4. Signs Wonders (in the marketplace)

• The apostles performed many miraculous signs
  and wonders among the people. And all the
  believers used to meet together in Solomon's
  Colonnade. (Acts 512).
• They were not done in a corner, but among the
  people, who were at liberty to enquire into them,
  and, if there had been any fraud or collusion in
  them, would have discovered
• it. Matthew Henry

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4 Types of Christians in the Workplace

• 1) Christian who simply tries to survive in the
  workplace.
• 2) Christian who applies biblical principles in
  the workplace.
• 3) Christian who works in the power of the Holy
  Spirit.
• 4) Christian who transforms their workplace for
  Christ.
• Ed Silvoso, Anointed for Business

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BezalelThen Moses said to the Israelites,
See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,and he has
filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill,
ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts--to
make artistic designs for work in gold, silver
and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in
wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic
craftsmanship.
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Arthur Guinness

• Irish businessman at turn of the century
• Sought God about problem of alcoholism in Ireland
  Make a drink good for them
• Guinness Beer - Heavy iron content
• Barnardos childrens home
• Hudson Taylor
• Built a college to train missionaries
• Brought changes to legal system in England based
  on biblical principles

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William Wilberforce

• 69 world-changing initiatives
• Abolished slavery after 50 years of work
• Almost went into the ministry, John Newton,
  author of Amazing Grace convinced him to stay in
  politics

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You are Called to Transform Nations

• Therefore go and make disciples of all nations
• Matt 2819

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What does transformation look like?
Newspaper Headlines

• CNN announces new program on how faith impacts
  the workplace.
• ATT renounces gay policy.
• Wall Street begins each day with prayer on the
  exchange floor.
• Churches pool money together to
• begin youth center in downtown
• area.

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What is the key to transformation?
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