Taking Your Soul to Work ? Faithfulness: Workplace Integrity (Chapter 15)

Faithfulness: Workplace Integrity – persisting in important work with utter reliability

Last week we looked at the?sloth?- the sixth deadly workplace sin which Ung and Stevens describe as working too little or alternatively too much.

The test of integrity is always what we do, how we behave, when no one is looking. The faithful worker continues to focus on the important matters when the boss is away, when the customer is not there to check the quality of the service being provided or the widget being produced.

Faithfulness of course is fundamental to the character of our God and indeed his Son, Jesus:

For this reason he [Jesus] had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and?faithful?high?priest?in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. (Hebrews 2:17)

Taking Your Soul to Work ? Life Giving Rhythms (Chapter 24)

Life-Giving Rhythms: Experiencing a pattern of life that produces excellent work without being consumed by it ?(Chapter 24)

Over the last two weeks, we have looked at the sloth?and faithfulness. Sloth is described as the sixth deadly workplace sin by Ung and Stevens which they explain is working too little or alternatively too much. The alternative they propose is faithfulness – experiencing a pattern of life that produces excellent work without being consumed by it.

As someone who has regularly been consumed by work over the years, I faced this chapter with both anticipation and fear – anticipation of the insights that the authors would provide but fear that I would be challenged to change some deep and unhelpful routines and habits that I had developed over 40+ years in work settings. ?

I was not disappointed! [Read more…] about Taking Your Soul to Work ? Life Giving Rhythms (Chapter 24)