PASTOR,
HAVE YOU POSITIONED
YOUR
CHURCH
AS THE
LOCAL EXPERT ON THE
FAITH @ WORK MOVEMENT? HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULD...
Working Christians are growing increasingly weary of leaving their spirit-man in the parking lot outside the workplace. They reject the conventional notion that the sacred and the secular should have nothing to do with each other.
Tell that to Jesus!
Most of His ministry took place in the marketplace. Intuitively, folks know there is more to work than trading time for cash, and they know there is more to worship life than church services. In fact, the same Hebrew root word for Work - avodah - is also used for Worship. In growing numbers, Christian employees and employers are embarking on a quest to integrate their faith with their work as spiritual beings seek to invade that earthly domain for the Kingdom of God. Leading compartmentalized lives is no longer a viable strategy for life or for work. Christians want to bridge the gap between Sunday and Monday.
Logically, one would think The Church would embrace this opportunity and seize the chance to equip the saints for this Kingdom mission. Yet empirical and anecdotal evidence reveals another story. Most business people experience a "Sunday-Monday gap," in which their Sunday worship bears little to no relevance to their Monday workplace.
With notable exceptions, generally speaking, sermon topics, illustrations, liturgical content, prayers, and pastoral care seldom recognize and rarely address, the spiritual questions, ethical challenges, pastoral needs, and vocational possibilities faced by those who work in business. Indeed, most active churchgoers surveyed cannot remember the last time their pastor preached a constructive sermon on work. Thus, working Christians often feel alone and unsupported by The Church in their marketplace vocations. Correctly or incorrectly, most businesspeople sense the clergy's broad unfamiliarity with, disinterest in, or contempt for, the business world and, by association, those who work in it.
Let’s face it, perception is reality.
What can you do?
Michael Tummillo is a Workplace Chaplain who speaks to everyone from business and civic groups to churches to college students to parolees about to re-enter the workforce. His interactive, inspiring message is entitled “The Faith @ Work Movement in Light of the Kingdom of God.” Not only are minds being renewed to the workplace ministry we ALL have, but attendees are prayerfully released into that ministry by the laying-on of hands.
Consider this...
100 Church-attenders are trained and equipped. Each one touches 20 lives with the love of God in the workplace. That’s 2,000 people and THAT is how a community gets turned upside-down. They might not all attend your particular church, but lives changed will create a revived spiritual culture. All because God’s people were released into the place where they spend up to 70% of their lives any way.
Contact Michael NOW!
E-Mail him at miketummillo@me.com
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