Work Part 3

Before we get into the Christmas season any further, I thought I would finish the series on work. This time we are going to focus on work as ministry. Remember we are called to make disciples as we are going into all of the earth. Most of us are not going to Africa, so we need to be doing this in our daily lives. And again for most of us, our daily lives revolves around work. So how can we do ministry at our place of work?

First of all we need to ask ourselves three questions.
1) Regarding the type of work, is our work meaningful and God honoring?
2) Then we look at the way we work and do we do our work with full energyand integrity?
3) Then there is the way we relate to others and are we reflecting Christ's love?

Second we need to look at who can we minister to at work. Obviously it can be our co-workers, but also clients and customers as well as families of co-workers and clients. Then finally it could be to vendors or reps. The idea is that we need to keep our eyes and ears open to whoever god puts in our path at work.

So how does this work out practically?
1) We need to work better than others with diligence and skill so that we have a good platform to speak out.
2) We need to come to work with a good attitude, not complaining, submitting to authority and by encouraging others.
3) We need to relate to others in ways different than everyone else does. That would be to thank them for what they do, help a co-worker with his/her work, let them receive the praise for a good job even if you did most of the work, but share the blame if something goes wrong. Talk to people and learn their story and their families, pray for their needs and let them know you are doing this, serve them in other ways as well.
4) We need to live the gospel out each and every day.
5) Lastly we will have to eventually share the gospel with them so be ready. You can also ask them to come with you to church or lifegroup, etc.

Hopefully this will be helpful to you to see work differently and not just a way of bringing home the bacon.