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ShareGod at Work
- Tue, May 1, 2007
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How does faith translate into the marketplace? Learn why one Christian leader believes the next revival of spiritual life in the West will begin in the hearts of business leaders, and how average workers can use "9-to-5" as their most important spiritual opportunity.
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Article- Kevin Adams
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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Little did a New York missionary realize that a noontime prayer meeting he was about to start primarily for businessmen would sweep America in revival and eventually have a worldwide influence.
Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier, a former businessman, had just started his work in July 1857 as an outreach director with the North Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton Street in New York City (just a few blocks from the later site of the World Trade Center). Convinced only of the centrality of prayer in ministry outreach, Lanphier set out to organize a prayer gathering with a difference:
Going my rounds in ...
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- Dr. Walt Larimore, William Peel
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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Chris would have been the last person to call himself an evangelist. He reluctantly signed up for a short-term mission trip to Cuba and came home full of stories of how he had seen God work. His new enthusiasm for declaring his faith was both heartwarming and a bit surprising. After returning from Cuba, however, he felt increasingly dissatisfied with his marketing work at a large firm. He struggled with the feeling that to continue in his profession was somehow to choose God's second best for his life. Perhaps I should quit my job to attend seminary , he thought ...
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- Dan Jarvis
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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When Life Action's revival team arrived in his Texas church, Rick Lawson had no idea what God had in store for him. “I was an engineering supervisor with one of the largest defense contractors for the U.S. government. In that role, I had top-level security clearance,” Rick explains. “During revival meetings at my church, God began to convict me about being dishonest years earlier when I had filled out my security clearance forms.” Rick had falsely checked “No” regarding pre-application drug use. “I had used drugs repeatedly while I was in college and on a few isolated occasions ...
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- Robert Fraser
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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As confident as Christians should be in our calling and purpose in the marketplace, we must not be naive about its dangers. The marketplace is a spiritual minefield, and many marketplace saints invite disaster by not tending the gardens of their hearts. Jesus expounded on the perils of a wrong approach to wealth in the parable of the rich man: [Jesus] said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.” And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of ...
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- Regi Campbell
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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People watch each other, keeping mental notes on those around them. When we need something, we usually think, “Who do I know that I can call on?” When we need a cup of sugar, we think about the next-door neighbor. When we have a question about our dog's health, we think about our friend who is a vet. People are our most accessible, most economical, and most efficient source of information. When a person gets interested in spiritual things, they're likely to look around for people they know and whom they think might have answers to their questions ...
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- Henry Blackaby
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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Editor's Note: We sat down with Dr. Henry Blackaby, author of Experiencing God and noted expert on revival, to find out why he believes the next Great Awakening is likely to begin in the marketplace. SOR: How did you first get interested in marketplace ministry? Dr. Blackaby: In the last ten or twelve years, I've worked with Mac McQuiston in what we've called the CEO Forum. It began when his life was radically changed by Experiencing God. He then asked me if I would help him disciple two businessmen. That has grown from 2 to over 170 ...
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- Byron Paulus
- Wed, May 30, 2007
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It wasn't an X-rated movie . . . it was XXX-rated.
By God's grace I don't remember anything about that movie. But I do remember the shock of realizing how incredibly different this moment was from my upbringing in a conservative Midwest farming community, where some of my most exciting childhood memories were getting ice cream on a Saturday night while the high school band played patriotic music in the town square. I was preparing to graduate from a Christian business school. This was my first job interview, and I was being wooed by a reputable firm in the bustling ...
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- Daryl Kraft
- Tue, May 29, 2007
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When people realize that I'm a Christian and have owned my own business for over 40 years, they usually get around to asking me, “Daryl, have you ever thought about going into fulltime Christian service?” The clear implication is that much of my business career is wasted in terms of eternal value, and that I could serve the Lord so much more fully in some type of church or evangelistic work. I am never really surprised by this question, because I struggled for over 20 years of my career with the same issue. I tried my very best to ...
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