Business in Glasgow

This session will appeal to you if you are in work and wondering if what you do at work really is of interest to God. It will help you consider how you can get up in the morning and go to work with God. Whether you love your job or are struggling to survive the daily grind, it will explore God’s involvement in your workplace and will challenge you to live out your faith in every aspect of the frontline of your work life. It will help you see that there is no need for a sacred secular divide, but that God call us to serve him whatever we do and wherever we are.

The session will be full of practical hints and tips to help you live out and consider faith at work.

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Event Report
Ruth began her talk with energy and enthusiasm as it was a topic which lay very close to her heart. It was clearly a very personal view of her attitude to work as a committed Christian. Ruth has held a clear conviction since being ‘liberated’ by a stimulating address delivered by Mark Greene, Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity that our work can be vocational too. In Ruth’s view there is no Sacred-Secular divide.

The frontline as Ruth calls it could be, your work, homelife, leisuretime, even your church community if you have one! Ruth shared with us twenty things (PDF, 100 kb) she has learned about being a Christian in the workplace, (inspired by Alicia Morga when at Consorte Media) thirteen of them intensely practical as Ruth always endeavours to be. At the heart of what Ruth had to say was a key quote from the Bible:

Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (Colossians 3:17)

Ruth went on to describe that the first phrase of that Bible verse sums up how much our work is of interest to God “Whatever you do,” which was pretty all encompassing! It was clear from Ruth’s talk that in her mind there is no divide between what is important to God in our lives. Basically all of our life. Since we spend 1700 hours a year with work colleagues here is a key opportunity to show and demonstrate the love of Christ to them in everything we do.