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MARKETPLACE FACTS

BUSY AT CHURCH - STERILE IN THE WORKPLACE

Module 601 A

Mario Denton

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Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace

To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace.

• Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.



QUESTION:

How do you think your marketplace colleagues view

you?



The marketplace

Greed, seduction and power games commonly prevail.



The marketplace

It is into this environment that the Master Strategist has undoubtedly placed you to affect lives for His

glory.



The marketplace

“My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one....I...pray for those who will believe

in Me through their word.” (Jn. 17:15, 20)



The marketplace• If you happen to be a hands on achiever

who is bent on getting “results” (profit, efficiency, visibility, image, timing) you daily face the temptation of using people as pawns and bending ethical and moral absolutes.



The marketplace• In this high voltage setting of the

marketplace, Jesus can easily be pushed into a servile role at the fringes of your operation, only to be called upon in moments of crisis.



The funeral

• “...Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” (Jn. 12:24)



The funeral• Only then will you

be able to allow the very life of Christ to help you achieve your professional goals in a manner that is compatible with Biblical values.



BUSY AT CHURCH - STERILE IN THE WORKPLACE

• One way many business and professional men and women rationalise their ineffectiveness at ministering in the marketplace is by busying themselves in service behind the less threatening walls of the church.



BUSY AT CHURCH - STERILE IN THE WORK PLACE

• Ironically, the folks at work may see scant evidence in them of the life of Jesus, while the brethren at church may view them as dedicated saints!



THE TRUE TEST• THE TRUE TEST OF YOUR WALK WITH

GOD IS NOT NECESSARILY DETERMINED BY HOW INVOLVED OR DEDICATED YOU ARE WITHIN THE CONFINES OF YOUR LOCAL CHURCH, noble as your service there may be.

Rather, the test may centre in the rough and tumble climate of the “marketplace”



Remember: We are in the transformation business

• This means that we are being changed from the inside out (Romans 12:2).

• It is a gradual process as we are transformed into His likeness.



Remember: We are in the transformation business

• Jesus Christ has sent us into the world to give the message of transformation (John 17:18).



We are in the transformation business

• We are to bring our world to God (I Corinthians 5:19).

• We will be changed because of Christ working in and through us (I Corinthians 15:52).




• The secret is Christ within each of us (Colossians 1:27).

• It is His power that works in us, not our own (Ephesians 3:20).

• It is through Christ that we become competent (II Corinthians 3:46), ministers (II Corinthians 5:18), and free (Romans 8:2).




• Through Him we are transformed not into someone who is better but someone who is completely different (II Corinthians 5:17).

• We literally are changed from ugly selfish caterpillars into beautiful butterflies that can bring glory to Him.

• He alone is our source of power and strength (II Corinthians 12:9, Acts 1:8).



Is Christ at work in your life, your company, and your world?

Are you as a leader being transformed by Christ?




Is your company different than other companies because of

Christ being at work within your life and the lives of your co-

workers?




Have you become more of a steward of your company and

less of an owner?



Is Christ at work in your

life, your company, and your world?

Is your focus more on the eternal than the temporal?



Are you standing out for Christ in the workplace?



SO THE QUESTION AGAIN:

How do you think your marketplace colleagues view

you?



Prayer Focus• Father, In the name of Jesus, I

surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen



Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25

• “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do

what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)



Learning, application and commitment

• One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.



Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!



Let's keep the good marketplace vibes alive. Let's network.

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Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Programme Director - Marketplace



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