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THE BAPTIST TIMES
‘God is in every workplace’
24 May 2007
Ruth Dickinson meets Ken Costa to find out how God and work can fit together.
It’s probably fair to say that Ken Costa’s working life is not, on the face of it, going to be that representative of anyone else’s. While you might wonder what this high flyer has got to say to the ordinary nine-to-fiver, it’s worth taking a look at his book…
Right from the beginning, Ken rejects the lazy but pervasive assumption that the only real Christian work happens in Christian organisations.
‘It is a very sad state that we’re in, that we divided up creation into those things which God is really keen on, and those things that God doesn’t really mind if they happen or not,’ he says. ‘That is a reductionist view of God. He created the entire world order for us. To separate them out would be for us to look at the creation and to actively pick and choose from within it. So you either have the view that he is lord of all - including commerce and [secular] work - or he is not Lord at all.’
What actually matters according to Ken, is working out what God has called us to do and how he has gifted us to perform our calling…
Work, according to Ken, is something which the church has overlooked at great cost to itself. ‘The principal cause of the decline of the church in this country is that it is irrelevant to 95 per cent of people 95 per cent of the time.’ Addressing issues of work, he says, is one major way in which new life could be breathed into the church…
The whole point of the book is to help people seek to glorify God in the work that they do…
More here.
The Baptist Times.
IDEA
‘Bringing God into the Workplace’
May/June 2007
Extract on Tough Decisions, from God at Work in the in the May/June edition of Idea, the Evangelical Alliance’s bi-monthly magazine.
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