A spiritual awakening at work

WorkLife Success Oct. 3, 2024

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Over one hundred thirty years ago, a spiritual awakening occurred in America that resulted in over one million people coming to Christ. Most say that this was the greatest revival in American history. The origins of that revival started and were sustained in the workplace.

Today, there is a similar worldwide movement of God occurring in the workplace. God is raising up men and women who are beginning to understand their work (vocation) is their ministry. Evidence shows that believers desire to understand why God has created them, and what specific calling God has for their life and work. They're discovering God has not called them to separate their faith and work, but true to the New Testament church they are one and the same.

A great number of the people in our churches are wandering aimlessly from church to work, and then from work back to church, trying to gain meaning out of what they do for over 65% of their lives.

One author called this aimless wandering a type of "Christian Schizophrenia" resulting in the workplace witness being anemic or damaged, and thus many believers concluding that Christianity doesn't apply at all in the workplace.

Over time, this has caused the church to grow more irrelevant in the very center of society—the workplace.

Our Lord spent a majority of His life out in the workplace—where a majority of the people were, and still are. This dilemma is crippling the very people that God has placed in strategic positions in the workplace (world) to pray and care for the lost, and then share the great news about Jesus as opportunities come.

Where do people spend a majority of their time?

God is calling us back to His original truth of being disciples in all of life, including work. A majority of the church congregation spends a majority of their time, and interacts with a majority of the lost world—not in the church, not in the neighborhoods, but in the workplace!

Pastors and those in the workplace alike are sensing a call to rethink our premise of ministry. Obedience to this truth can ignite the church to awaken a sleeping remnant in the body of Christ—the workplace Christian.

Many churches and pastors are seeing the vision of what can happen when they equip their people to be ministers in all of life, including their work or vocation.

The Bible says, "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry." In accordance with Ephesians 4:11-12, let us equip the body of Christ to be ministers at work! Most people who are called to work can and should be an integral extension of the local church ministry, but need affirmation, teaching, leadership, and support from the church in this critical area.

Jesus said, "The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send out more workers for his fields." (Matthew 9:37-38). Nowhere is this truer than in the very place that the church spends most of its time—at work.

May God bless you as we together mobilize the church for His glory.

Written by Doug Spada, Founder and CEO, WorkLife, Inc. Used by permission.

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WorkLife Success applies biblical principles to help churches minister to their congregations in the area of work. Additionally, we help businesses increase productivity by addressing their employees' emotional and spiritual anxiety surrounding the most stressful day of the week — Monday. The end goal is to produce workers that experience the amazing joy and purpose that God intended through work. Learn More »

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