Coming to Grips with Your Role in the Workplace
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Researchers say that there are more than 40,000 different kinds of jobs in the United States. Yet in spite of this diversity, many people still haven't linked up with a job they really like. They face the option of moving from one job to another or enduring years of conflict and drudgery.
The New Testament teaches that God has made us all different; we should seek to find the vocation that is best suited for our gifts and temperaments. Yet, it also teaches that even slaves can serve with gladnesss if they understand how God views their work.
This eBooklet seeks to show that almost any task can be fulfilling if it is done for the right Person. It explains biblical principles that can transform even routine duties into acts of glad obedience. Here is sound advice for the person who is unfulfilled and despairs of ever finding the right vocation.
Erwin W. Lutzer
Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church, where he served as the senior pastor for 36 years. He is an award-winning author and the featured speaker on three radio programs that are heard on more than 750 national and international outlets. He and his wife, Rebecca, have three grown children and eight grandchildren and live in the Chicago area.
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Introduction
When I’m at home I’m one person. When I am at work I’m another," Del said, complaining about the pressures that his job put upon him.
When I’m with Christians I act like them; at work nobody even knows that I’m a church-goer, much less a born again believer.
Del was working seventy hours a week trying to please a demanding boss who expected ever more from his employees. To quit meant that he would be without a job in a competitive market. To continue meant that he was cheating his family and jeopardizing his health.
His wife’s critical attitude toward his long hours of low paying work drained whatever romance was left from their relationship. Now he was tempted to seek fulfillment with a woman who adored him, a woman whose friendship would be free of the tensions that existed in his home. He began to consider an affair with this woman co-worker.
Del knew that with his job dilemmas there were no easy answers, perhaps no answers at all. To quit after two years of training and heavy time investments was unthinkable; to continue was to be pulled even further away from his family. Now even sexual temptation lurked on the job. He was convinced that there were no reasonable options.
What should he do?
As Americans earning a living in the late twentieth century, we face a set of challenges unknown to previous generations. With the proliferation of knowledge and inventions, we are told that there are perhaps 50,000 different kinds of possible jobs, demanding a wide range of training and aptitude. Many of these responsibilities are highly specialized and require years of training. Finding the one that best matches our abilities, temperament, and pocketbooks is indeed a difficult task.
Millions of jobs also demand intense interpersonal relationships that spark conflict and force individuals to make decisions with unclear ethical guidelines. Whereas previous generations faced rather simple day by day responsibilities, our technological and informational explosion has created a whole new set of problems. Stacks of books on such topics as tension, managing conflict, and workaholism testify to the pressures of the workplace.
If you are dissatisfied with your career, you have plenty of company. Even as early as 1976, researchers in New Jersey reported that up to 80 percent of Americans are in the wrong jobs!¹
Nevertheless, the pressure-packed working world is a great place for personal and spiritual growth. In fact, the complex demands of the twentieth century workplace form the best laboratory to prove the reality of God. Right in the midst of corporate America, with its evercrumbling ethical structure, is one of the best opportunities to prove that Christ can make