Pastoring Christians for the Workplace
What Makes Work “Christian”?
By J. D. Greear | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013Scripture teaches us how to serve God through our work, not just after work. Here are five features of what that looks like.
7 Things Pastors Should Teach Those in the Marketplace
By Lukas Naugle | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013The marketplace can seem dizzyingly diverse, yet it’s where many church members spend most of their time. What should pastors teach them?
Pastoring the Wrongly Ambitious
By Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013As Christians, we are called to be ambitious for Christ, yet many seem ambitious only for the things of this world. How can you pastor them?
Preaching to Women Who Work in the Home
By Bari Nichols | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013To care well for the women in your church who work in the home, remember their curse, their context, and their culture.
Wanted: Businesspeople for the Church
Pastor, Teach Your Businesspeople to Tend the Vine
By Sebastian Traeger | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013Pastors and businesspeople bring different gifts to bear for the body. One way pastors can help businesspeople thrive in church is by teaching them to disciple.
Businessperson, Help your Pastor Build Trellises
By Sebastian Traeger | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013It is easy for businesspeople in a church to feel misunderstood and underutilized. But this businessman advises, ask not what your church can do for you, but what you can do for your church.
What is Business as Missions?
9Marks | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013Business as missions is an old idea that’s opening new doors in international missions.
Resources on Work
9Marks | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.13.2013A few practical resources for pastoring Christians for the workplace: A six-week Sunday School Class on Christians in the Workplace from Capitol Hill Baptist Church A five-week Sunday School Class … keep reading…
Book Reviews on Work
Book Review: The Call, by Os Guiness
Review by Drew Bratcher | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.07.2013To find work that perfectly fits our callings is not a right, but a blessing.
Book Review: God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life, by Gene Veith
Review by Ben Wright | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 02.22.2013Pastors may find God at Work to be a useful tool as they translate theological language related to sanctification into laypeople’s vernacular.
Book Review: Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work, by Tom Nelson
Review by Sam Emadi | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013This book is a helpful introduction to the subject of vocation in Christian theology.
Book Review: How the Church Fails Businesspeople, by John Knapp
Review by Nik Lingle | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013This book would be a good starting point for pastors wrestling with how to equip their people to live as disciples of Jesus around the clock.
Book Review: Work Matters: Lessons from Scripture, by R. Paul Stevens
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.07.2013Stevens writes with years of experience and knowledge of Scripture, and though you might not agree with everything, there will be plenty to ponder about our gracious God.
Other Book Reviews
Book Review: Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City, by Tim Keller
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 02.12.2013Center Church is Tim Keller’s magnum opus.
Book Review: Everyday Church, by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 02.25.2013This book is instructive, encouraging, and convicting. I am happy to recommend it.
Book Review: Church Transfusion, by Neil Cole and Phil Helfer
Review by Todd Pruitt | 9Marks Journal: Pastoring Christians for the Workplace | 03.08.2013I know the authors mean well, but the church does not need more doctrinal ambivalence and suspicion of preaching to carry on faithfully in the world.
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