Spiritual Life and Leadership
Ministry leadership is about more than just growing your church or organization. It’s about participating in God’s mission in the world. But how can leaders know God’s mission or their unique place in it? Faithful ministry leadership is rooted in a life of deep and abiding faithfulness to Jesus. In “Spiritual Life and Leadership,” Markus Watson and his guests explore what it means to be faithful leaders whose ministry flows from their ever-deepening relationship with God.
Spiritual Life and Leadership
316. How Work Forms (and Sometimes Deforms) Us with Matt Rusten, author of Pastoring for Monday
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Are your congregants' jobs a distraction from their discipleship, or one of the main places it actually happens? Matt Rusten, president of Made to Flourish and editor-in-chief of Common Good Magazine, joins Markus to explore the theology of work and what it looks like for pastors and churches to help their people see their everyday jobs as spiritually significant.
This Episode's Highlights Include:
- Why the Bible introduces God as a maker before it describes him as holy or merciful
- What it means that every person in your pews has a "sphere of dominion" in their work
- How work forms your congregation over time, and how it can quietly deform them
- Why Jesus used work as the backdrop for most of his parables
- Why John the Baptist sent tax collectors and soldiers back into their same jobs
- Practical ways your church can help people connect faith and work: small groups, "This Time Tomorrow" interviews, and pastoral workplace visits
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