I’m glad your voice is part of this important conversation and grateful every time you lend it to us!

jh

And Nancy – I forgot to address your sassy remark in my last comment, but yes, you are right. Our mommies were our first managers, so they deserve to be in the mix right along with the rest of us. Good catch.

Deb, thanks for stopping by and supporting us!

(BTW, I opted for no-blog because my battle with severe pain makes the spontaneity of blogging a dangerous outlet for me. With the devotional, I NEVER print until I’ve checked it against Scripture, made sure I didn’t write it AT someone, and have let another pair of eyes peruse it for tone and spirit. Otherwise, I’d be known as thebiggrumpychristian or madetomutter, instead of Madetomatter.org. )

Anyway, before the pain limited the hours I can work, we were getting 100 emails/day from people eager for more informaton, or prayer, or with questions. So please, don’t any of you stop or get discouraged…”the harvest is plentiful but the (unselfish) laborers are few.”

(NOTE: “Unselfish” doesn’t appear in Jesus’ quote in Scripture.)

On the other hand, there really are a lot of people out there (like all of us!) who are addressing this subject. I am continually suprised by the new sites I come across all the time. It just hasn’t really ever gone mainstream, for whatever reason.

So, yes, let’s all keep doing what we’re doing and making people more aware of the business-spiritual connection!

Thanks for the mention. It’s good to learn of you and your work.

Wishing you all the best,
Margaret Benefiel

I want to encourage David Rupert, too, publicly. (A good friend and GREAT writer at Red Letter Believers). In 1990, I was commissioned to examine over 800 titles written on work/faith, en route to recommending which were useful to working Christians. Literally, less than 10% were helpful, accurate and/or Biblically appropriate (and I was extremely loose in defining “worth reading” back then!) And that was before the recent rash of titles (over 300 in three years, I’m told) hit the shelves. Publishers have been burned by work/faith writers who
(a) aren’t careful with Scripture;
(b) teach health/wealth or have joined the bandwagon addressing the narrow, narrow, narrow market of leaders in business who are Christians; or
(c) trash the church or pastors, an act God simply will not honor.

So it’s harder to get published out there for now, but it will get loose again–and publishers ARE watching the leading writers/sites. There’s a deep and abiding hunger among workers, I promise you, and it’s global, but we’ve had too much garbage/fluff/or heresy burning off people’s attention for about five years. By the way, if Bradley permits it, and I’ll understand if he prefers not to…here’s an article showing the cycle in work/faith history, with implications.

http://www.madetomatter.org/articles_view.asp?columnid=4672&articleid=48267