Like Matthew said, we continue in our Work as Worship series talking about what it means to work as if we were working for Jesus to work in a way that honors God and really in the way that God would hope that we would work as Christians in the world hoping to redeem things and change things and transform them for Him.
There's a certain way that we should work. So week one in this series we talked about why we work, that we were created to work, that work was a part of paradise, that God is a worker, that God's a creator and that we're made in His image and so therefore we work and we do things like He does and we create like He does.
And so work was always a part of God's plan for us and then last week Josh said that not only are we created to work but we work, there's a person we work for and we ultimately work for Jesus.
No matter what we do, we work for Him and we should work in such a way that we recognize that He is the one providing the job, He's providing the money, He's providing the opportunities and so we work as if He were Himself our boss.
And so there's two questions answered there but this week what I want to tackle for us and what I hope that we get into tonight is who we are at work.
Not only are we created to work but we work for Jesus but who are we at work? What's the character of the people of God in the workplace?
What are the standards God holds us to as Christians in the workplace and how do we live those out in a way that honors Him and shows respect and honor to our boss and treats our employees and our co-workers well?
What does all that look like? What's character in the workplace look like?
So that's where we're going and I think it's super important because we can get that we're created for work, we can get that Jesus ultimately is the one we're working for.
But if we still are living in such a way that our character in the workplace doesn't demonstrate the love of Christ, doesn't demonstrate the character of Christ, doesn't show the world who God is, there's something missing.
There's a missing piece to the puzzle and we don't really have the full picture of how to be forces of redemption and people carrying the gospel, carrying God's love into the workplace.
So if you will turn to Titus 2 in your Bibles or on your Resonate App and we're going to have it on the screen as well, that's where we're going to be hanging out tonight.
Titus is one of the letters Paul wrote in the New Testament to the guy named Titus, one of his disciples, similar to 1st and 2nd Timothy.
But what Paul's doing here is writing to Titus and saying, hey, Titus, here's how you should leave the church, here's how you should teach the church, here's the doctrine you should teach to these people while I'm not there.
And he has some interesting things to say about work, so we'll go there tonight.
Verse 9 of Titus, chapter 2, verse 9, it says this.
It says, teach slaves to be subject to their masters and everything, to try to please them, not talk back to them and not steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted so that in every way they will make the teaching about our God and Savior attractive.
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people, it teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.
While we wait for the Blessed Hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that art his very own, eager to do what is good.
As you read this text, as I read this text this week, I started thinking, man, Paul, you got anything else to say about work?
Because that sounds a lot like Colossians last week, that sounds a lot like Ephesians, that sounds a lot like all the other things you've said in the New Testament about work.
You're addressing the same group of people it seems like, and you're saying a very similar thing in all these different iterations.
And as I got to thinking about that, I think that there's a reason behind that.
I think that Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, under the wisdom of God, was addressing similar people in different contexts.
And what he found was that workers in the first century context, slaves, they fell into this issue, these common issues when they became Christians.
When they became Christians, they recognized that they had freedom in Christ.
They recognized that they were no longer slaves to their sin and the old self and the ways they used to live.
But they've been given freedom in Christ and set free from that, and that caused some issues in terms of their relationship to their employer.
Josh talked about this last week that the issue of slaves and masters in the first century is not like 19th century slavery in America.
It was not that kind of relationship.
And so when the slaves were becoming Christians and realizing they have freedom in Christ, they had this issue where they started to kind of cast off all authority.
And say, well, because I'm redeemed by Jesus, no one else can speak authority into my life.
And so what Paul says in this context and others is that the slaves should be subject to their masters and everything.
And so not only did Paul know that that was pertinent and relevant for slaves in multiple contexts, in multiple cities,
but I think the Holy Spirit knew that that was going to be an issue or a relevant issue for us in 2014.
That there's going to be a temptation in our heart to want to cast off authority and say, no, you can't be the boss of me.
You can't speak to me in that way. I'm not going to listen to you. I'm not going to do what you say.
And I think that the Holy Spirit, as he always does, nailed it on the head.
We have this issue where we want to not be subject to authority and listen to our bosses and those who lead us.
And so the first thing we see in this text is that we should be subject to, we should submit ourselves to those who lead us.
We should listen to the things that they have to say to us.
And this is hard. This is hard, right? We want to be our own boss.
We want to lead the company. We think that we could always do a better job.
But if you've ever been in any sort of leadership, you realize that leadership is a lot harder than it may look to those being led.
That leadership is something that is taxing and you're always trying to do your best to lead the people you have authority over,
the people you are in charge of.
And whenever there's any kind of pushback on your leadership, you start to question, well, do they understand how much I care?
Do they understand what I'm trying to accomplish here? Do they really get the vision?
And so as we are in positions of the employer to employee relationship, Paul says that we should be subject to them.
That we should respect those who are placing authority over us.
In Romans 13-1, Paul addresses this issue again and says that all authority has been placed there by God.
Non-Christian authority, Christian authority, all authority has been placed in that position by God.
And so we should trust in God that he's placed in there on purpose, should not only work as if we're working for Jesus,
but really respect that person who's in authority over us.
And one of the biggest ways I think that we get caught in disrespecting our employers are not obeying their commands.
And I don't mean obedience like a son to a father. Happy Father's Day, by the way.
I should have said that from the beginning.
Call your dad if you haven't. There's still time of day and there's still grace if you haven't.
I called my dad and played phone tag all morning and finally talked. And then I realized, remember it actually,
that neither I nor my dad are going to get a small talk. It's like five minutes.
Well, hey dad, happy Father's Day, and I'll see you next week. All right, bye. Cool.
So anyway, no, this is good. Let's get back into it.
Paul says that we should honor those, our bosses, we should honor those in leadership over us in the way we speak.
He says, don't talk back to them. Now, slaves talking back to their masters is probably different than the way it looks for us today.
But in our context today, I think there's a lot of ways in which our words demonstrate the kind of character in our heart.
In Luke 645, Jesus says that out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So whatever is deep in our heart, whatever is the reality of our heart, the reality of our soul is what comes out of our mouth.
And so the words we use in response to our authority in our lives, in response to our boss, in response to the co-workers,
really demonstrates what's going on in our heart in terms of our job.
So, you know, in the real world context, I think that this plays a big part in the way we interact with people in the workplace.
Do you give lip service to your boss when they're around, but then the minute they leave the room, start questioning their authority.
Can you believe that guy? Can you believe they asked me to do that? That's not in my job description.
That's not what I'm getting paid for. If I was leading this thing, it would go a lot better, right?
So we tend to dishonor, to disrespect authority in our lives, to subvert authority and not be obedient to those given authority over us in the way that we speak.
So we should honor those people that are leading us with our words, and we should honor our co-workers with our words.
I think workplace gossip is one of the sins that Christians so often fall into without even realizing it.
It's so easy, right? You're sitting at work and all of a sudden, it's break time, so you go to the break room.
If your board has a break room, I just don't. It's like I turn around, well, our new offices, turn around, there's a ping-pong table, that's a break room right there behind my desk.
But we get to the break room and it's time to chill out with our co-workers and that topic of, hey, did you hear what so-and-so did last night?
Or did you hear what so-and-so did yesterday? Can you believe what they said in that meeting?
Can you believe how foolish that was? It's so easy for us sometimes to forget that we are still Christians in the workplace,
and Jesus has called us not to talk about others in a dishonoring way, to have words that lift up rather than tear down.
And it's so easy for us to fall into this trap of talking bad about our co-workers, talking bad about our employers, and never really thinking about it.
But God calls us to a higher character in terms of our speech.
And so that's one of the biggest ways, Paul says, that we can honor those in authority over us to love them well as Jesus would,
in terms of speaking about them in a way that shows honor and respect, that shows love, that shows grace, that shows understanding.
We should be people that speak so well of our employers, there should be people that speak so well of our co-workers,
that really know that we love them, we care about them, that we can be trusted.
They should never question whether or not we've said anything behind their back.
It's the kind of people we should be in the workplace.
We should be so set apart in terms of our speech.
It should be holy speech.
The next thing that Paul says is that we should not steal from our employers.
Now, this one is even tougher to examine from a modern day context.
Because like that video, you might steal the stapler, you might steal the pen once in a while accidentally.
I know I've done it.
Then you take it back because you feel guilty and it's not yours.
Or you just keep it because it's a pen, right?
And it's not a big deal.
And you probably invested more in the company than what the pen works for.
We don't often steal monetarily from our co-workers, we don't often steal monetarily from our companies.
But I think that more often than not, we steal with our time.
It's really so.
But we steal with our time where we spend a little too much time on social media, right?
Or we spend a little too much time checking World Cup scores.
Because I know I did this week, it was bad.
It's World Cup though, it's over four years, right?
It's my excuse.
So we steal with our time and we have this temptation to say,
well, I'll just take a little bit more time for myself.
I just need a little bit of time to just get my mind back in my work and focus.
So just a little bit of Facebook here, a little bit of Twitter there.
And it's so easy for us to take a lot.
If we looked back at our day in 15-minute chunks,
we probably spent a lot more time not focused on our work than we realized.
And really the hope behind it is productivity.
You would still get your job done.
But imagine how much more you could accomplish in your work.
Imagine how much more productive you could be if we weren't busy stealing time from our employers.
And so policies don't steal from there.
Don't dishonor them by being kind of two-faced and working half-heartedly and stealing with your time.
I was thinking this week about an example of this.
This was a frustrating thing for me.
That job I mentioned a couple weeks ago of declaring on hotel as a banquet server,
what we did was set up events and served meals.
And there were these two guys I worked with.
And both of them were smokers.
And I'm not hating on that, but that's fine.
But because they were smokers, they felt entitled to smoke breaks.
And I think you're loud one or two in a shift, legally by the state, I don't know.
But they took more than that.
And they were always taking smoke breaks, leaving the building,
checking out for like 15 and 20 minutes of time.
And I remember just getting so frustrated with that.
I remember thinking, man, you're just stealing time from me.
I'm going to have to stay late.
This shift is going to go way longer.
And me and poor old German Anna are doing twice as much work
because you guys are out taking 20-minute smoke breaks.
And I remember feeling like someone stole from me.
I remember feeling like they stole a sense of,
hey, I thought you knew that I cared about this job,
but I also cared about my life outside this job.
So can you respect that and maybe honor me a little bit more
and honor this old German lady a little bit more
by doing your work well and not taking 20-minute smoke breaks?
So we tend to steal with our time more than anything else.
So it's important that we recognize that that's a real deal.
And Paul says, don't do that.
Honor your employer.
Honor the people you work with by working hard from start to finish.
Don't check out and steal with your time.
The big deal in this, what this all boils down to,
is this idea of integrity.
Character, I think one of the primary character component
that Jesus calls Christians to have is integrity.
If we get integrity, we won't steal with our time.
We won't talk poorly about our employers.
We won't talk poorly about our fellow employees.
We will honor people and we'll love people in the workplace
and we'll do all of that well if we understand what integrity looks like.
And really, what integrity is about is this idea of trust.
In verse 10, Paul says that we should do all of this
so that others will know that we can be fully trusted.
So when you have integrity, when you show yourself to be the same person
in all contexts, when you show yourself to be consistent in your character,
people start to trust you more because they've experienced you
in multiple contexts and in multiple circumstances going,
hey, they weren't the same person in that circumstance as they're in this one.
I know they're going to treat me the same in this one,
in this circumstance as they were in that one
and they're always going to respond to me in a way that honors me
and loves me and shows me value, right?
And so they're going to see integrity in your life and that builds trust.
And what we said in week one is that the workplace is a web of relationships
that you are intimately connected with the people you work with,
sometimes more than the people you live with.
You spend, like Josh said, 22 years of your life at work
if you work in a career consistently from age 25 to retirement.
That's a lot of time around the same kind of people
or maybe around the same specific people.
And so it's a web of relationships
and if you're not living in such a way that builds trust between you,
you're going to have a hard time at it
and you're going to have a hard time feeling connected to those people
and feeling loved toward those people
and Jesus is going to have a hard time working in your workplace through you
if there's no trust there.
Trust is the currency of relationships.
And the thing about trust is that it takes a long time to build
and it's broken in an instant, right?
Trust takes forever to build.
Sometimes you're like, why doesn't this guy like me?
Why can't they get on board with me being here?
Why do I feel like I walk into work and they just give me dagger eyes every time
and I feel like I can't even get anywhere at this person's
because there's probably a lack of trust there.
And it takes a long time to build and it's broken in an instant.
This is where integrity comes in.
I think the problem though is that integrity has been so hijacked in our day and age
and so watered down. We don't really know what integrity means.
I think we'll give you an example of this.
I was a member of a fraternity college.
I won't mention which one because you guys go to WSU most of you
and there's a connotation at WSU.
Different chapters are different, don't hate, okay?
We had a reputation, a good reputation,
and we had this idea that we were all about building men of integrity.
That was our main goal.
We wanted to build men of integrity.
We hoped that the guys would come in as freshmen, as boys,
and come out as seniors, as men, and it never worked
because it's college, right?
The cultural expectation of college overrides our hope for integrity.
But guys would come into the fraternity and we have recruitment process
and so they would come in and they'd be like,
hey, I want to join your house. I want to be a part of this thing.
I want to be a man of integrity, whatever that means.
We'd say, cool, we would love to have you go through this process of recruitment.
They would spend a couple of days with us showing us who they were
and we would show them, tell them about our house
and show them who we were and tell them about our values.
And what we realized, what I realized after a year or so of this,
is that guys, not just guys, but people like to, in those situations,
put on their best face.
They like to show you the best sides of them.
And then the moment they're in the house, the moment they get accepted in,
there's this switch that goes off and they're a totally different person.
And every year we're like, who are you?
I thought you were that cool, nice little kid who got straight A's
and loved his mom and was a good kid and you're not that and I'm disappointed.
And so every year we had this moment of like, whoa, where's your integrity?
It's broken, it's gone, it's out the window and I don't trust you anymore.
And so there's always this four-year process of building trust with that person
because the first day they broke their integrity and we started questioning
whether or not we trust them.
Eventually we just said, I'm not even going to try and hold you to that standard
and so we kind of start to lose our values as an organization
because there's no trust there, there's no integrity.
So integrity is a big deal and our day and age, we don't really think about it much.
And let me just define integrity for us really quick.
Integrity is not being perfect.
You can be a broken person being changed by Jesus' grace
and transformed by Him over time and still have integrity.
Integrity doesn't mean you're perfect.
Integrity means that you're the same person in any circumstance.
You're one person.
The root word of integrity is integer, it means one.
That was two, but it means one.
You're one person in any context.
That if someone were to see you, come over to your house for a barbecue,
they'd see you be the same person with your wife and your kids
or with your roommates as they would see you at work.
That you would be the same person, you would talk the same,
you would act the same, you would treat them the same.
You wouldn't have preference from one situation to the next.
You wouldn't treat certain people differently than you do others.
You would be the same person in every context of your life.
That's integrity.
You may be the same jacked up person needing grace in every context of your life,
but you're the same person.
What breaks trust is when you're a shady person who says,
I'm this person here and I'm a different person at work.
I'm one person around my wife and I'm a different person around my boys
when we're out fishing.
I know that there's certain jokes you may not say around your wife
because you probably just won't think that it's funny.
But are you the same person? Do you have integrity?
And when you have integrity, when you can live with integrity
and be the same person in each context,
people are going to start to take notice of that.
They're going to start to trust you.
They're going to start to see you as someone that they know,
hey, if I tell this person this thing,
they're not going to tell someone else.
If I trust them with this, or if I ask them to do something,
I've seen them perform in this area,
so they're going to perform well in this area.
They're going to have integrity. They're going to be the same person.
That's what we're talking about here,
that what you see is what you get when you have integrity.
And I really believe as I started to think about this
and started to think about the workplace
and the potential we have as Christians
to transform things in the workplace,
I think that your co-workers and your employer
are desperate to see a Christian who lives with integrity
and blows away any possibility of accusation of hypocrisy.
I think the biggest complaint against the church
is that we Christians don't live in a way that we preach,
that we are hypocrites.
And so if your co-worker, if your employer can see someone
in their workplace living with integrity,
the same person in all contexts,
I mean, I think that that has potential
to blow their minds in terms of what Jesus,
who Jesus is and what the gospel means.
They're desperate for it.
They're desperate to see a Christian who lives authentically
and has integrity.
So Paul says we need to be people who have integrity.
We need to be fully trusted by those who lead us,
by those who we lead,
and in every context that we would be people of integrity.
So let me give you a few practicals
to grow in this kind of character,
to grow in what it means to have integrity.
My hope is that we would get practical tonight,
that we've kind of talked about why we work
and who we work for.
We've kind of flown the plane up to 30,000 feet
looking down on the world of work
and how we live as Christians in the workplace.
And I hope that tonight we start to get practical
and give you some things that we can live out.
So let me give you a few practical things
that we can live out this week.
Number one, when we're people of integrity
and we live in a way that honors God,
we admit when we're wrong.
Trust is built when we can be people
who not only admit when we're wrong,
but be the first person to say,
yeah, I messed up.
If your boss could come to you and say,
hey, how does this thing go?
And you said, man, it didn't go as well as I hoped.
I didn't really live up to your expectations
and I know it and that's my bad.
I'm sorry for that.
But here's the reality in your book.
I didn't live up to that.
And for them to give you grace in that moment,
for you to subject yourself to that
and allow them to give you grace
and for you to be the first one to say, yeah, I messed up.
And that builds trust.
Because then they know that you weren't trying to cover it up.
It's a totally different story if you go,
yeah, it went pretty well. It was great.
Yeah, totally nailed it.
And you didn't nail it.
Later on they hear from your coworker
and your coworker says, yeah, I didn't.
They really think they did that well.
It's a totally different conversation.
And it builds trust in that relationship with your employer.
It builds integrity in your life
when you can admit that you're wrong
and be the first one to say it.
Number two, do what you say you'll do.
This comes back to integrity again.
You would let your yes be your yes and you know your no.
You wouldn't over promise and under deliver.
There's nothing more annoying or more troublesome
when someone says, hey, I'm going to deliver this sweet product.
I'm going to be awesome. It's going to be great.
I can do it. I'm the guy from the job.
And then they don't do it.
And if it falls flat, they never come through.
You're just like, man, can you just don't sell it so high?
Just set the bar a little lower for yourself if you have to.
But be someone who says, I'm going to do this and then I do it.
And I get it done.
It's such an integrity killer, a trust killer
when we say we'll do things and we don't fall it through.
People want us to, our employers want us to be people
who fall it through and do things well.
Number three, champion more than challenge.
This one is so, this goes back to the words we speak,
the way we speak about our employers, about our coworkers,
that you would be someone who champions your employer.
And when people ask, hey, what do you think about your boss?
You'd say, man, they're the best boss in the world
and they may not be the best boss in the world.
And so I'm not asking you to lie,
but champion what's good about them.
Maybe they manage their company well
and they've allowed you to have benefits.
Maybe they've worked really hard
and even to have a company that can employ you,
you'd be thankful for that and champion them and say,
man, I'm so glad they gave me this job.
Maybe they check in on you often and say, hey, how's it going?
And they really care about you.
Tell people that.
Say, man, my boss really cares.
I'm really thankful for that.
And so you champion more than your challenge, right?
And it's so much easier for us to be a critic and say,
well, they don't do this.
They don't do that.
I wish that they would provide more for me.
I wish that they gave me better benefits.
I wish that they would do this and that.
We should be people who champion our boss
and our coworkers more than we challenge and criticize.
And that's going to build a love for them in our hearts.
It's going to more than create bitterness
and it's more of a great frustration.
It's going to build a fondness for them
and we can start to pray for them and love them well
and treat them like Jesus would in our work context.
Number four is give more than you get
that you would be an asset to your company,
that your boss would be so glad that they hired you.
Man, how sweet would it be
if people spoke so well of the people of our church,
that people of resonate would be the best employees in the city
that our boss would regularly go,
man, they give so much back to the company.
I never question how much I'm paying them.
I don't question that bonus I gave them.
I gladly do that because they give more than they get.
They don't start, this kills the,
that's not what I get paid for mentality, right?
You would be a bigger asset to your company
than what you're getting back from your company.
And this goes against everything in our culture.
This goes against everything that our culture believes about
why we work, it's all about us, right?
That I would get paid, that I would get benefits,
that I would have a good time mom at work,
that I would enjoy it.
We give more than we get because Jesus gave more than he got.
Jesus gave everything and he got us,
and he's thankful for that, he loves us.
But sometimes I know that I am not,
I'm not exactly what I would die for.
But Jesus gave everything and he got us
and so we should give more than we get to our company.
Number five is pray, pray, pray.
I can say two more to just have five and number five.
But man, this is huge. We should make our work
a spiritual endeavor.
And this is the simplest way I can think of.
There's nothing on the screen.
I was like, Kevin, come on, it's on this one.
We should pray more than we should for our work.
I think that prayer is probably the easiest and the quickest way
we can make work a spiritual thing for us.
We should pray on the way to work.
We should ask Jesus to give us opportunities in that day
to love our co-workers well, to honor our boss.
We should pray at lunch to God to give us grace
and energy to get through the rest of the day.
We should pray as we're leaving work
and thank Him for that day of work.
Thank Him that we still have a job.
Thank Him that He's providing through that job.
Thank Him for all that He did in that day.
Prayer is something that I think we don't give enough credit to,
as powerful as it is,
and something that can really connect us spiritually to our work.
So we should pray.
And this list is...
We put this in your program for you to tape on your dash
or tape on your windshield
or tape it on your mirror in the morning,
whatever you need to do.
I hope that it's practical for you.
I hope that these are things you can put into practice.
And what this boils down to really,
what Paul's getting at here,
what God wants to say to us this morning,
is that it's all about attitude.
It's all about attitude in the workplace.
Our character is reflected in the attitude we bring into work.
Do you have the kind of attitude
that Jesus would want to multiply at your work?
Would Jesus want more of your attitude
walking around your office?
Or would He not want to draw attention to the way you work?
That's really what we're talking about here.
Are we the kind of employees that Jesus himself would hire?
I know that sometimes I'm not.
I know that I steal with my time.
This series has been so good for me
because multiple times a week,
the Holy Spirit's been whispering to me,
saying, man, you need to get to work.
You need to shape up.
And it's been really good for me.
And so I hope that that's the case here tonight.
Let's look one more time at verse 10.
Paul says that all this character,
all the way we speak, all the way we act,
all of it is for the purpose of making the gospel
attractive to non-believers.
That the way we live,
the character we bring into the workplace,
it makes the gospel,
if we live like Christ in the workplace,
it makes the gospel attractive to non-believers.
And on the flip side,
if we're not living as Christ in the workplace,
it makes the gospel unattractive.
We become a stumbling block to knowing Jesus.
That people start to look at our lives and go,
I don't really see God working in their life.
I don't see transformation,
so I'm not really sure that God can transform my life.
But if we are people who are transformed
bringing the character of Christ in the workplace,
they're going to look at our lives and say,
man, that person is different.
They're transformed. They're changed.
Maybe their God can do the same thing in my life.
And that's what we're getting at here.
Let's keep reading in verse 11.
It says,
So we say no to cutting corners.
We say no to get rich quick schemes.
We say no to laziness.
We say no to how far to work.
We say no to stealing when there are time.
We say no to workplace gossip
because Jesus gave everything
so that we would be redeemed
and made his own people to do good works in the workplace.
So that we would make the gospel attractive to non-believers.
So that we would be the kind of people
that the world can look at and go,
man, they're different. They're transformed.
I don't know what it is,
but I want to know more about it
because they are so different
and they treat me better than anyone else I've ever worked with.
There's so much trust here
because they treat me so much like God,
and I don't even know that yet,
but I'm going to ask them about it
because that's how I feel, right?
And so we would make the gospel attractive.
Jesus wants to do something amazing in your workplace.
Jesus wants to transform the place you work at
and the people who work there,
but first he has to do work in you.
First he has to transform your heart,
and then he's going to transform their hearts.
But we need to be changed first
and we need to have the kind of character
that people can look at and say,
man, that makes God attractive.
That makes the gospel attractive.
So I hope that we can put this into practice this week.
I hope that we can be people that Jesus would hire
and that our coworkers can look at and go,
man, they're different.
They're different.
I want to know more about that.
They're transformed.
So as Josh and Heather come up,
I'm going to pray for us,
but the response is simple tonight.
Give those five things a shot this week.
And two, tonight, just simply ask God
to show you where He wants to change you
in terms of your work.
Show you where He wants to transform
your heart, transform your character
to make you more like Him in the workplace.
Help you to work like Jesus.
I've tried it this week and I promise you
He's going to speak to you.
He's been speaking to me.
It's been a little tough.
I've realized I'm panel lazy.
But man, it's sweet.
When you start to see God working in you
in your workplace,
it starts to transform him
because he's transformed you.
So let me pray for us.
Father, I thank you.
That you gave up everything.
That you worked hard for us.
That you sent your son Jesus to die
in our place, to take away our sins.
So that we could be redeemed people
who go into the world
and have an opportunity to transform lives
and transform our jobs.
I've got to pray that you would change our hearts
and give us the kind of character
that you want us to have.
Pray that we'd be people of integrity
who are fully trustworthy.
That we would speak well of our co-workers.
That we would speak well of our employers.
And that we would demonstrate
your character at work.
Thank you, Jesus, that you've allowed us
to be transformed
so that we might help you to transform
your name and live.
