Actions and Attitudes

Every Church Should Consider

 

1. Pray for the workplace. Encourage men and women to submit prayer requests to the church’s prayer ministry and set aside a day each week to pray for their workplace concerns.

 2. Make new heroes. Show how people in your congregation take their faith to work and what happens. Tell stories of how they experienced God’s presence in their workplace last week.

3. Mention work applications in every message. Adults spend an average of 50% of their waking hours working or thinking about work. Remind them about what it means to follow Jesus in this dominant part of their lives.

 

4. Preach about work regularly. There is more about work in the Bible than worship.

5. Begin an on-going workplace ministry that equips your congregation for life and ministry in the workplace.

6. Let people know that their work is their ministry whether they work in the church, home, or workplace and should be don’t for God’s glory.

7. Spend time every week visiting someone in their place of work.

8. Formally commission individuals as workplace missionaries.

9. Begin a small group ministry in the workplace.

10. Investigate how you might engage businessmen in a business as missions venture.

11. Identify men and women’s workplace/business skills and ask them to use them at church.

12. Create a feedback loop for sermons. Ask what does this have to do with your work (50% of their waking hours).

13. Teach a biblical theology of work to your young people so they do not have to relearn God’s view of work later in life.

14. Watch your language

• Don’t imply that work is the enemy of a person’s spiritual life.
• Don’t imply that some work is more important to God than other work by speaking of church ministry as a “higher” calling. Also, don’t refer to it as “full-time” ministry since everyone is equally called to the full-time service of God—some inside the church, some outside.
• Don’t assume that every business person is motivated by greed and power.