Christians In The Market Place Series

So if we have to produce excellent results, we need to start at the core, which is our identity. All of us are born with a defective identity, we need to first accept that fact and take God’s help to shed the imperfect identity, and acquire the Christian identity that God has intended for us. Our identity is not that of slave but that of a son, and a son also becomes a heir. This realization is important for us while we live our faith in our workplace. In other words, we cannot have one identity for work life and another identity for faith life. This is our core and the core has to be the same. The moment we realise that we are co heirs to the Kingdom along with Jesus, our whole out look towards the workplace issues and challenges would change, and acquire a different perspective.

For guidelines on how to shed our natural identity and acquire a Christian Identity , please visit http://menorahleadership.com/excel.shtml or http://www.menorahleadership.com/christian-id.shtml

Next is the personality part. What are the right aspects of personality to achieve work place excellence and do ministry, where we are placed, In our neighborhood, in our workplace, in our business, in our friends circle. I am not talking about full time missionaries here. I am talking about you and me, who live among the quote unquote “pagans” and are called to influence them so that they may have same hope that we have too.

My studies reveal to me that there are six aspects of the personality that we need to be conscious about to do ministry in our own space. The six aspects or 6 Ps are

1. Person of Peace

2. Person of People Relationships

3. Person of Presence

4. Person of Proclamation

5. Person of Preparation

6.Person of Perception

We need to be a person of the six P’s for us to be able to do workplace ministry effectively. For a detailed explanation on the 6Ps please visit http://www.menorahleadership.com/pers-evan.shtml

Once we have understood our Identity and personality, the next stage is to understand, develop and demonstrate the appropriate Leadership behaviour in the workplace. Here again Jesus provides us with an excellent example of Servant Leadership, through out his life and ministry. His command given in Matthew 20:25-28 is very relevant to corporate workplace or to our society in general. "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many”

For a more detailed understanding of Servant Leadership and it’s application in every day life, please read the series on Servant Leadership starting with http://www.menorahleadership.com/sl-intro.shtml

With these three areas of Christian Identity, Person of 6Ps and Servant Leadership God has really SHAPEd all of us for excellence in Market place and to be an example.