Category: Series: How the Church Fails Businesspeople (Book Discussion)
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Calmly Considered: How The Church Fails Businesspeople
Last week, I participated with Allan Bevere in a discussion centered on John Knapp's book "How The Church Fails Businesspeople (And What Can Be Done About It)." Discussion focuses on integrating our faith and working lives, with reflection on why that integration is so challenging.
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Index: How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it)
Over the past month, I did a book discussion series on John Knapp's, How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it.). Each post was originally posted on Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog, and then I reposted each entry here at the Kruse Kronicle. Here is an index to the series for…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 8
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 23, 2023.) WWJD – What would Jesus do? Most people are familiar with the popular Evangelical movement that sprang up in the '90s, inviting people to ask this question about daily life decisions. Many people…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 7
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 23, 2023.) How do we create coherence between faith and work? John Knapp has explained how important rethinking vocation is and how important it is that we carefully consider a moral theology of work. Today,…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 6
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) Today we continue with John Knapp’s How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it). We turn now to Chapter 6, “A Moral Theology of Work.” The business environment can…
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Samford professor’s book says church fails many workers
al.com: Samford professor's book says church fails many workers HOMEWOOD, Alabama — A pastor once asked a professor for advice on how to handle a controversy in his church. The largest financial supporter of a Baptist church was nominated to the board of deacons. He happened to be the owner of a busy liquor store.…
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 5
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) Real estate people say real estate is about three things: location, location, location. Well, I suspect integrating business and faith is also about three things: vocation, vocation, vocation. “Vocation” comes from the Latin…
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How the Church Fails Business People – 4
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, (June 19, 2023.) The Godfather movie trilogy has one of my favorite takes on ethics with business: (insert best Brando voice here), “It’s not personal. It’s business.” And then there is the infamous tell-all Mayflower Madam…
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How the Church Fails Business People – 3
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) Henri Nouwen once observed that when people came to him for counseling, most of them would open up and readily discuss the most intimate details of their sex lives. But when he began…
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How the Church Fails Business People – 2
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) The business world frequently hinders our integration of faith with work, but the church also creates its own obstacles. We continue today with John Knapp’s How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can…