Ten at Work
Freedom, Commandments And Promises
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2012
192 pages
978-1-84474-835-8 (ISBN)
Description
What do the ancient stone tablets Moses carried down the mountain have to do with our twenty-first-century high-pressure workplaces?
Everything, says John Parmiter.
In this honest and inspiring book, he explores how applying the Ten Commandments to our jobs brings us freedom and godly purpose. Focusing as they do on personal integrity and our key relationships (with God and with others), they are disarmingly relevant to the daily pressures we face at work.
John's insights have been tested in the fire of a contemporary business environment, and pass muster in any boardroom, brickyard or baby-care situation. They provide, whatever your work, a compelling and fresh take on living wholeheartedly for Jesus.
Everything, says John Parmiter.
In this honest and inspiring book, he explores how applying the Ten Commandments to our jobs brings us freedom and godly purpose. Focusing as they do on personal integrity and our key relationships (with God and with others), they are disarmingly relevant to the daily pressures we face at work.
John's insights have been tested in the fire of a contemporary business environment, and pass muster in any boardroom, brickyard or baby-care situation. They provide, whatever your work, a compelling and fresh take on living wholeheartedly for Jesus.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-84474-835-8 (9781844748358)
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11/2011
Inter-Varsity Press
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Person
John Parmiter's night job in a bar gave no indication of the great things he would one day achieve. Nowadays he is a partner of consultancy Peter Brett Associates, in the planning, development and economics business group. He is based in central London. He is also a qualified mediator, a workplace speaker for the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and a long-standing member of Holy Trinity, Brompton, where he is involved in 'The Marriage Course' and has led Alpha groups for over 25 years. He is married to Jackie and has four grown up married children.
Content
- Intro
- Ten at Work
- Contents
- Series Preface
- A time for courage
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Love
- The promise
- Good news
- 'Understanding the present time'
- Making the workplace better
- Solutions needed
- Alternatives?
- What must we do?
- A journey
- Ten
- 1. Discovering contentment
- The work context
- Relativities
- Another approach?
- Thoughts and actions
- What about poaching?
- Motivations
- Greed
- Power and paperclips
- Fear
- Cooperating with God
- 1. Cultivate our knowledge of the Creator
- 2. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
- 3. Cultivate stewardship
- 4. Cultivate relationships
- 5. Cultivate giving
- 6. Cultivate priorities
- Yield to God
- For reflection
- 2. Remaining honest
- Harmless or devastating?
- The problem of trust
- Words
- Words and actions
- Reputation management
- Workplace scenarios
- a. Gossip
- b. Character assassination
- c. Office politics
- d. Negotiation
- e. Flattery
- f. Briefing (usually the press)
- g. Research/analysts' opinions
- h. Evidence
- i. Corporate cultures
- Choices
- Words of truth
- Love in action
- 1. Be filled with the truth
- 2. Maintain restraint
- 3. Practise truth-telling
- 4. Confront lies (nicely)
- 5. Be an encourager
- 6. Cultivate regular forgiveness
- Live counterculturally
- For reflection
- 3. Prospering with integrity
- Fear of theft
- Stealing
- Rooted in the culture
- Variety
- a. Dishonesty
- b. Sickies
- c. Defaulting on loans or obligations
- d. Deception and misrepresentation: false promises
- e. Defrauding
- f. Money laundering
- g. Bribery
- h. Fraud
- Too much is not enough
- Words
- Our heart matters
- Responding to God's initiative
- 1. Go for brutal honesty
- 2. Practise restitution
- 3. Exercise a thankful heart
- 4. Keep on giving it away
- 5. Maintain integrity
- 6. Cultivate a 'daily bread' lifestyle
- Enough is enough
- For reflection
- 4. Maintaining healthy relationships
- Outdated?
- Protecting marriage
- Alternative perspectives
- A covenant relationship
- Freedom within boundaries
- Being squeezed into the world's mould
- Consumerism
- Sexualization
- Commoditization
- Emotional intellect
- Work culture
- The work context
- Christian responses
- The example of Jesus
- An issue of the heart
- God's initiative
- Responding to God
- 1. Keep a clean mind
- 2. Actively respond
- 3. Practise affirmation
- 4. Take evasive action
- 5. Be selective in confrontation
- 6. Be accountable
- 7. Seek good maintenance
- For reflection
- 5. Keeping the peace
- A biblical perspective
- Anger in the workplace
- 1. Conflict
- 2. Stress
- 3. Fear
- Right anger?
- Love in action
- 1. Practise restraint
- 2. Express appreciation
- 3. Try negotiation
- 4. Forgive quickly
- 5. Go the extra mile
- 6. Cultivate the Creator's love
- For reflection
- 6. Living with our past
- The value of parental role models
- Dead meat at fifty-five?
- The effects of our parenting
- God as Father
- Giving honour
- receiving the promise
- Honouring all fathers and mothers
- Homestead
- Work and family life
- Loving responses
- 1. Show respect
- 2. Affirm parenting
- 3. Choose acceptance
- 4. Offer appreciation
- Gone
- 5. Establish boundaries
- 6. Agree clear expectations
- Important to God
- For reflection
- 7. Keeping a balance
- Holy day or holiday?
- Delightful or dismal?
- Work and rest
- The purpose of work
- 1. We are made for work
- God is a worker
- We are created in God's image
- We were made for work
- 2. Why work can be so difficult
- 3. The New Testament makes it clear that we work for God
- 4. Why the workplace matters to God
- Limitations on work
- Challenges of work
- Sabbath times
- 1. Rest
- 2. Reflection and delight
- 3. Time that dethrones the rule of work
- 4. Time for God
- The danger of legalism
- A pattern of rests
- A pattern of reminders
- Enjoying God
- For reflection
- 8. Maintaining respect
- Names as brands
- The name above all names
- The significance of names
- His name as revelation
- What's the problem?
- Misuse
- Consequences
- The workplace context
- Authority
- Power
- Character
- Responses
- 1. Watch our own language
- 2. Be prepared to credit God
- 3. Walk the talk
- 4. Be prepared to challenge others
- For reflection
- 9. Working in freedom
- Reality check
- The cultural context
- Images of our times
- 1. Wealth
- 2. Power
- 3. Fame
- 4. The body
- 5. Sex
- 6. Sport
- 7. Lifestyle
- 8. Escape
- 9. Nature
- 10. Spirituality
- Consequences
- False promise
- Forfeiting grace
- Idols in the workplace
- Security
- Significance
- Power
- Approval
- Comfort
- Control
- The power to change
- 1. Surrender our hearts
- 2. Tackle the idol, not the person
- 3. Try turning it on its head
- 4. Confront it graciously - in the public domain
- 5. Doing away with it in our private domain
- 6. Be accountable
- Intimacy with God
- For reflection
- 10. Staying focused
- Context for God's people
- Patterns at work
- A me-first work culture
- Saved from ourselves
- The problem
- First at work?
- Responding in love
- 1. First in my heart
- 2. First with my time
- 3. First with my money
- 4. First in my mind
- 5. First as one of his
- 6. To meet together
- 7. To take risks
- Life in Jesus
- For reflection
- Further reading
- Notes
- Introduction
- 1. Discovering contentment
- 2. Remaining honest
- 3. Prospering with integrity
- 4. Maintaining healthy relationships
- 5. Keeping the peace
- 6. Living with our past
- 7. Keeping a balance
- 8. Maintaining respect
- 9. Working in freedom
- 10. Staying focused
