I have developed a super-secret plan to integrate my faith into my workplace. There is not an attorney in the world that will be able to stop me. I am so confident in the power of my plan that I am sharing it with you so that you can implement it as well.
Survey Says
I know this idea of integrating your faith into the workplace is a challenge. Results of a recent survey commissioned by Saddleback Valley Community Church demonstrate just how much of a challenge!
Here are their key findings:
- 95% of respondents said integrating faith into their work is important.
- 85% said they had no idea how to integrate their faith. They were just “winging it.”
- 83% said they were very cautious about trying to integrate their faith into the workplace. They were afraid of being seen as weird, being judged, being persecuted, or just because they felt poorly equipped.
So, among regular church attendees, the vast majority think it is important to integrate their faith into the workplace, but they don’t know-how, and they don’t have a plan to do so. The lack of knowledge and the lack of a plan results in fear, which keeps them from trying to reach their co-workers.
My super-secret plan is the perfect solution. No longer will fear keep you and me from integrating our faith into the workplace!
My Aha! Moment
The whole idea came to me while I was attending the Faith@Work Summit in Chicago recently. A casual comment from one of the presenters gave me the seed of the idea. She said she could not preach about Jesus in her secular workplace, but she could preach about love, respect, and dignity. Eureka!
She is absolutely right! Integrating our faith into the workplace doesn’t mean we have to stand on a stool and preach about Jesus as we hold a Bible in one hand and a bullhorn in the other!
Integrating our faith into the workplace is as simple as living out what the Bible teaches us!
Two Ways to Live
In the heart of his letter to the Galatians, Paul explains that within man, there are two natures – the sinful nature and the Spirit-filled nature. He implores the Galatians to live by the Spirit, so they will not gratify the sinful nature’s desires (Galatians 5:16).
The sinful nature, says Paul, is contrary to the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is contrary to the sinful nature.
We have a choice. We either live by the Spirit of God, or we live by our old sinful nature.
According to Paul, it’s easy to spot the fruit of people living according to their sinful nature. Among other things, they are sexually immoral, impure, and idolatrous. They sow hatred, discord, and jealousy. They are subject to fits of rage. They are full of selfish ambition, dissension, and envy.
The fruit of a person living in the Spirit of God is just as obvious. They have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, says Paul, there is no law (Galatians 5:22-23).
My Super-Secret Plan
There was no law against love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in Paul’s day.
And as far as I can tell, there is no law against expressing any of a Spirit-filled believer’s traits today. You can be filled with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control all day long in your workplace, and there is not a thing standing in your way!
Therefore, no one can stop you from integrating your Spirit-filled life into the workplace!
So that’s my plan. Simple, isn’t it? To integrate my faith into the workplace, all I have to do is live out a Spirit-filled life at work. I just need to demonstrate the fruits of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
No one can stop me! Against these things, there is no law!
Join the Conversation
As always, questions and comments are welcome. Have you been cautious or even reluctant to live out your faith in the workplace? What do you think of my super-secret plan? Will it help you?
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