Beginning with Charlie, a hard-charging businessman and recent Christian convert who feels himself torn between "Charlie Love" and "Charlie Money," the authors lament that the church, looking on the secular workplace with distance if not suspicion, has little to offer the Charlies in its midst. The authors-Graves and Addington are producers of Life@Work Journal and Maxwell is the foremost leadership guru among evangelicals-deploy a wealth of quotations and illustrations, loosely organized around themes of skill, calling, service and character. Although the book seeks to inspire Charlie and those like him to "reforge" their work and faith selves into a double-edged sword, it runs long on cheerleading but short on insight or practical guidance. Discussing the important and difficult subject of calling, the authors assert without apparent irony, "Like a giant job-match service in the sky, Jesus pairs His children up with His kingdom tasks." Among the book's frequent references to Jesus, his teaching is rarely discussed; most curiously, his comment about the incompatibility of serving God and Mammon is never mentioned. Although team authorship can produce excellent business books, the approach stumbles here as uneven quality and multiple authorial "I" 's give the text a cut-and-paste feel. (Aug. 18) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Authors John C. Maxwell, Stephen Graves, and Thomas Addington identify the basic tools followers of Jesus should always have in their work toolbox: Calling, Serving, Character, and Skill.
People of faith need to be comfortable and intentional in two worlds-the world of the kingdom and the world of the commercial-blending and balancing their roles in each.
In Life@Work, the authors explain how we, as Christians:
- know our work has purpose because we are serving a God whose purpose is bigger than us
- believe our work and life are part of His bigger plan (which) supplies an inner joy
- understand why we work and to listen to God about your profession.
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Listening to God must be experienced and is not something that can be simply described to those who don't understand God's word or His will. For those Christians feeling dissatisfied or unfulfilled with work, school, or life in general, this book is the perfect reading for them.
Authors John C. Maxwell, Stephen Graves, and Thomas Addington identify the basic tools followers of Jesus should always have in their work toolbox: Calling, Serving, Character, and Skill.
People of faith need to be comfortable and intentional in two worlds-the world of the kingdom and the world of the commercial-blending and balancing their roles in each.
In Life@Work, the authors explain how we, as Christians:
- know our work has purpose because we are serving a God whose purpose is bigger than us
- believe our work and life are part of His bigger plan (which) supplies an inner joy
- understand why we work and to listen to God about your profession.
*
Listening to God must be experienced and is not something that can be simply described to those who don't understand God's word or His will. For those Christians feeling dissatisfied or unfulfilled with work, school, or life in general, this book is the perfect reading for them.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940174843134 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Leadership |
| Publication date: | 10/04/2022 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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