"Let us go to the Jordan, and let us collect logs there, one for each of us, and build a place there for us to live." He answered, "Do so." 2 Kings 6:2 NRSV …
Dennis W. Bakke
"It is love that allows us to give up our power to control. It is love that allows us to treat each person in our organization with respect and dignity. Love sends people around the world to serve others. Love inspires people to work with greater purpose." –Dennis W. Bakke, former CEO of Applied …
Darrell Cosden
“Work is essentially our way of being humans rather than simply animals in the world. It is a useful activity but more than this because it is our starting point for a human rather than animal existence. … Work is not simply an activity undertaken by man out of necessity. Rather, it is an activity …
David Jensen
"The primary value of our labors is not the work itself, but the One who calls us to labor. Work is precious because God summons us to work." -Dr. David Jensen, Dean of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary …
Doug Sherman
"I suggest that we have come to the day of the layperson, the day when the key operative in the Church is not a pope or a saint or a monk or an evangelist or a missionary or even a “highly committed” churchman — but the everyday worker who simply puts Christ first in his or her career, as in the …
Missional Church
"The answer to the crisis of the North American church will not be found at the level of method and problem solving. We share the conviction of a growing consensus of Christians in North America that the problem is much more deeply rooted. It has to do with who we are and what we are for. The real …
Jürgen Habermas
"Power is actualized only where word and deed have not parted company, where words are not empty and deeds not brutal, where words are not used to violate and destroy but to establish relations and create new realities." -Professor Jürgen Habermas, Chair of Philosophy and Sociology at Goethe …
Robert K. Greenleaf
"It has generally been my experience that the very top peopleof truly great organizations are servant-leaders. They are the most humble, the most reverent, the most open, the most teachable, the most respectful, the most caring, and the most determined. When people with the formal authority or …
Doug Sherman and William Hendricks
"I think we might find more non-Christians turning to Christ if we as Christians concentrated considerably more on a God-honoring lifestyle than simply on evangelistic strategies. Obviously we need both. But I think we are shooting ourselves in the foot if we try to witness apart from Christlike …
Rev. John Wesley
"Gain all you can, without hurting either yourself or your neighbour, in soul or body, by applying hereto with unintermitted diligence, and with all the understanding which God has given you. Save all you can, by cutting off every expense which serves only to indulge foolish desire, to …