LLM: February 2012

Versión en Español → Spanish

Holy Workday

What does a Free Methodist Church employee know about working in the real world, where colleagues’ dirty jokes and profanity may be an unavoidable part of the workday? How can you take a magazine’s holy-at-work theme seriously when its Openers column is written by a guy whose boss’s bosses are bishops?

Before I joined Light & Life Communications last spring, I spent a dozen years in the newsrooms of the Chicago area. Although I had wonderful colleagues who remain my friends, my past and present employers have very different mission statements. I wasn’t the only Christian on the newspaper’s payroll, but most journalists know the details of the “Associated Press Stylebook” better than they know the Bible.

A few years ago, my parents received an email from a Christian organization advocating a boycott of my newspaper company because a columnist expressed anti-Christian views. Of course, a group of atheists could have canceled their subscriptions because I worked there. I even discussed my faith on the company’s religion blog.

Jeff Finley, Lead Writer

Whether writing an article or cleaning a toilet (I’ve been paid to do both), we can do our jobs for God’s glory (1 Corinthians 10:31). If customers, clients or co-workers frustrate us, we should keep Ephesians 6:7 in mind: “Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people.”

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Features

• Table of Contents
• [Feature]: Holiness in the Workplace
• [Bishops]: An Outbreak of Holiness
• [Foundation]: Light in Dark Places
• [History]: Bob Briner: Roaring Lamb
• [Action]: Management as Ministry
• [News]: BOA Freshmen Offer Unique Strengths, Backgrounds
• [World]: European Leaders Meet in Madrid
• [Discipleship]: Uncover Your Faith

Related posts:

1. LLM: January 2012
2. LLM: October 2011
3. Where Holiness Happens