Executive Influence
Chapter One
Service Call
Most Christians are called to the marketplace as their sphere of
service to God. Even in Jesus' day only a few disciples left
their jobs to devote themselves exclusively to the gospel. The
vast majority of believers, then and now, dispense salt in daily doses while
earning a living in the world. What a high and holy calling, says University
of Southern California philosophy professor Dallas Willard:
Possession and direction of the forces of wealth are as
legitimate an expression of the redemptive rule of God in
human life as is Bible teaching or a prayer meeting. For
example, it is as great and as difficult a spiritual calling to
run the factories and the mines, the banks and the department
stores, the schools and government agencies for
the Kingdom of God as it is to pastor a church or serve
as an evangelist. There truly is no division between sacred
and secular except what we have created. And that is why
the division of the legitimate roles and functions of human
life into the sacred and the secular does incal ... read full excerpt from Executive Influence ebook
