{"id":47978,"date":"2011-11-05T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=47978"},"modified":"2011-11-05T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:19:32","slug":"commentary-a-christian-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/commentary-a-christian-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: A Christian employee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46619\" title=\"lisa dublin\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lisa-dublin-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lisa-dublin-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lisa-dublin-71x113.jpg 71w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lisa-dublin.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>This article might perhaps stoke the ire of hundreds of God fearing, bible believing, church going folk, those who joyfully fill church pews of every denomination on the weekend, and trek and trudge to work for five more days during the week. Some of the same folk I might add, who bring their employers and non believing work colleagues to the point of bitter confession: \u201cI am not going to hire any more Christians\u201d, their perception of that designation being someone who goes to a small church, has a Jesus Loves You track ready for distribution and reads their Bible all day, while doing the Company work in between.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to argue about who is a Christian. That is not my purpose. There truly is a perception that Christians don\u2019t really like to work hard. There it is. I\u2019ve said what\u2019s on many people\u2019s minds. But I do hope you would see me as qualified enough to speak on the topic. I\u2019m a born again believer, and an employer and a hard worker and a trainer. No contradictions there.\u00a0 I found myself repeating the mantra about not hiring Christians until professional training and a gut feeling that there was more to this, demanded that I look beyond the trends and explore the reasons logically.<\/p>\n<p>For the average Christian, there is an irreconcilable chasm between the divinely focused Sunday (or Saturday) and Monday\u2019s grainy realities. If Christians are not taught to apply eternal principles of excellence, accountability, integrity and adaptability to their careers and jobs, Sunday really defeats its purpose to be a filling station for a thirsty soul to go back out again. In his 1978 publication, The Christian Employee, Robert Mattox illustrates this myopic point of view with a story about a Christian employee called \u201cJohn\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John like most Christians, believes that work is necessary and even honorable, since a man is supposed to support his family. But at the same time, he believes that the system of secular employment is at enmity with the spiritual world. His only hope is that one day the system will be replaced.\u2026 He wants the Lord to return so that he can escape the office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employers who are willing to get staff to change attitudes and work ethic would do well to use these belief systems to their advantage. Most people who call themselves Christians do genuinely love God, and would work better if they recognized the correlation between Sunday and Monday. They are both acts of worship. The Christian\u2019s life is supposed to be one of superlatives \u2013 being the best, working the hardest and smartest, being the most innovative, the most efficient, the most pleasant, every single day. When these truths come alive, we are the best witnesses for Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Dublin is the Director of OSSi, a six year old training company that facilitates presentations, seminars and workshops in effective public speaking, customer service excellence, employee motivation and excellence in the workplace, career guidance, business etiquette and image management. If you do have a comment on today\u2019s article, drop us a line at OSSi: ossitrainingnow@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article might perhaps stoke the ire of hundreds of God fearing, bible believing, church going folk, those who joyfully fill church pews of every denomination on the weekend, and trek and trudge to work for five more days during&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COMMENTARY: A Christian employee? - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/commentary-a-christian-employee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: A Christian employee? 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