Finding God at Work

Have you ever gone swing dancing? When dancing with a partner, you don't just have to know the moves and the music; you have to know your partner! Both you and your partner have to know the moves, and then as you dance, you respond to each other in the moment.

Dancing is a great metaphor for evangelism. On the one hand, we need to know the moves, or the good news of Jesus Christ. But there's also an element of needing to know the person we're in a dialogue with. We need to know where they're at and how open they are to the Good News. So the question is, how do we do this?

There's a well-known phrase that goes, "Preach the gospel at all times. When necessary, use words." To be frank, this is terrible guidance for a life of mission! While it is important that we live lives that are reflective of the Gospel, it is also important that we're regularly using words to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

In Luke 8 we see Jesus living His whole life in a way that reflected the Gospel. And as his followers, we should seek to do the same. Then in Colossians 4 and 1 Peter 3, we see this concept of 'responsive initiative', of being ready to share our faith as others ask us questions and engage in conversation.

So first of all, we need to evaluate if the way we live our lives is provoking questions from the people around us. On this, Dallas Willard says, "If you do not exhibit the presence of a life that is above this world, something that is coming into you and giving you joy, peace, and strength in a situation that looks very bad from the outside, there isn't going to be anything for people to ask about." Are we experiencing the Good News ourselves? Are we experiencing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in our lives? If not, let's learn the Good News for ourselves, and then we'll have something to share with those around us.

Once we get to the place where people are asking us questions, what do we share? Tuvya Zaretsky (as quoted by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp) asks, "Would you pour out a whole pitcher of water if all they are holding is a little Dixie cup? No, you would only pour out a few ounces." Don and Doug agree: "We need to give people what they ask for instead of pouring out everything we know about God the first time they display a Dixie cup's worth of curiosity. . . . Try to assess your friend's curiosity and respond in kind. This approach is much more likely to result in the growth of their curiosity over time."

With this posture of responsive initiative, we're looking for opportunities. We're arranging our lives so we can have these kinds of opportunities come up. And then when someone's curious, we're responding with the level that's appropriate for their level of curiosity. And then, we go from there.

Sources:

Luke 8:1 (ESV)

Colossians 4:5-6 (NIV)

1 Peter 3:15-16 (NIV)

Dallas Willard, The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus (New York: HarperCollins, 2015).

John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

Don Everts and Doug Schaupp, I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008).

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If you have any experience gardening, one of the first lessons you likely learned was the importance of healthy soil. When Chris and Katie first moved into their current home, Chris tried planting flowers that never grew well because of the poor condition of the soil. Katie suggested treating the soil with weed killer and fertilizer. But as Chris tried to fertilize their lawn, he accidentally dumped the remainder of the fertilizer mix onto one spot of the lawn, permanently killing that little patch of grass. Chris has not made his yard a hospitable place for growing things.

Before we think about having conversations about Jesus with people in our lives, it's good to assess if our life is a hospitable place for spiritual conversations to grow. Chris shares four things you can do to make the garden of your life more hospitable for spiritual conversations with people who don't yet know Jesus.

First, do your job well. If you don't do your job well, that's a terrible witness, and people likely won't pay attention to what you say about spiritual things.

Second, make an intentional effort to get to know the people around you. People often view work as a task they need to get done, and if they end up talking with someone during the course of their day, then that's great, but it's not a priority. This is not a good way to cultivate a hospitable environment for spiritual conversations! Make an intentional effort to get to know your coworkers. If you work remotely, this can look like asking someone how their weekend was as you're waiting for a zoom meeting to get started. Ask questions that show that you care about them.

Third, merge your universes. People often have two groups of friends that they keep separate: their Christian friends, and their non-Christian friends. And in many cases, the number one reason our friends aren't Christians is that they don't have any other Christian friends. Something we can do to help with this is by introducing them to a community of Christian friends. Invite your non-Christian friends to join you when your Christian friends are hanging out. Slowly over time, your Christian friends and your non-Christian friends will become friends with each other.

Fourth, talk to your non-Christian friends the same way you talk to your Christian friends. If you say 'Praise the Lord!' around your Christian friends, say it around your non-Christian friends too. Share what God is doing in your life with your non-Christian friends. While you should use discernment to navigate what topics to share or if certain conversations should be avoided, don't censor your faith because you're around non-Christians.

As we commit to these four practices, we will naturally cultivate a hospitable environment for spiritual conversations with those around us.

Sources:

1 Kings 18:30-39 (NIV)

Mark 2:13-17 (NIV)

Acts 16:14 (NIV)

Ephesians 2:5 (NIV)

Sam Chan, How to Talk about Jesus (Without Being That Guy) (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020).

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How many notifications do you have on your phone right now? If you're like me, you likely have a dozen notifications at any given time, all competing for your attention.

We live in the attention economy, where powerful corporate interests have fine-tuned capturing our focus through our phones. It's scary that what we think about can be so easily influenced by private corporations. Our phones have become little distraction boxes, constantly diverting us.

As disciples of Jesus, one reason this dynamic should concern us is its effect on evangelism. Attention is the starting place for evangelism. We often think of evangelism as conversations we have with people, but before we can have those conversations, we have to notice people in the first place. We have to pay attention to them.

The question is, how are we attending to other people around us? Turning to Scripture, we find that attention is right at the center of our life with God. Our way of attending to God and our way of attending to other people are connected. Psalm 16:8 says, "I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken" (ESV). David is talking about attending to the Lord in his heart and mind.

Evangelism doesn't always happen during a scheduled time of 'going out and doing evangelism'; rather, evangelism is a way of being in the world. It's going through the world having set the Lord before you and paying attention to those around you, while being open to interruptions of opportunities to love people. Like the Good Samaritan in Luke 10, we can take time to see people who come across our path unexpectedly. Only then can we move from attention to action.

Sources:

Psalm 16:8 (ESV)

Luke 10:25-37 (ESV)

Leighton Ford, The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2014).

Mary Schaller and John Crilly, The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations: Walking alongside People Who Believe Differently (Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale, 2016).

C.S. Lewis, "The Weight of Glory," in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, 1-15 (New York: Macmillan, 1949).

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Have you ever gone birdwatching? Those who are really adept birders often bring binoculars and know all of the names of even the obscure birds. They've trained themselves to be attentive to where the birds are, and know what time of year different birds come to their area.

Chris and Katie aren't adept birders, but when they go on walks together in Aurora, they often see birds and point them out to each other. It's not uncommon for one of them to stop in the middle of a walk and say "Oh, look! There's a goldfinch!" Sometimes it flies away before the other is able to see it, but there's this hope that the bird will stay still long enough so that the other person will get to see it too.

This is a picture of what evangelism can be like in our everyday lives. When we think about evangelism, we often think about what we're saying to others, which can put a lot of pressure on us. However, it's important that we realize that we, as evangelists, are not a sage on the stage. We are a guide on the side.

We're coming alongside other people and saying, "Look! Isn't that beautiful?" We're pointing to the reality of God in Jesus Christ and hoping that they can catch a glance. This takes the pressure off of us. It's not about how perfect our words are. The point is that they see Jesus.

With this in mind, we also discover that we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously, because evangelism wasn't about us to begin with. Dallas Willard was sometimes introduced as a spiritual formation expert, and he said, "I want to fade into the wall at that point." Because there are no spiritual formation experts. All of us are learners. All of us are students. Jesus is the only true teacher. So that means that we're in a good place to help other beginners. We're in a good place to help other people who are coming to see the goodness of Jesus.

As we kick off this new series on evangelism, A Guide on the Side, we're going to talk about how to have joyful spiritual conversations. In evangelism, we are encountering Jesus for ourselves. And in that, there's joy. And as we soak up the radiance of Jesus's presence, we then look for opportunities where somebody else might be willing to come and see what Jesus is like too. We're just bringing people to Jesus. We are guides on the side, not sages on a stage.

If there's one idea about evangelism that you can take away from this, it's that you can do it. You can be a fruitful evangelist. You can be someone who proclaims the good news about Jesus in winsome and beautiful ways to the people around you who are open to it. Sources: John 1:35-45 (NIV) Matthew 14:25-33 (NIV) Dallas Willard, "Spiritual Formation: What it is, and How it is Done," Dallas Willard Ministries. Jerry Root and Stan Guthrie, The Sacrament of Evangelism (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2011).

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Do you know the Golden Rule? Jesus teaches it in the Gospels: "Do to others as you would have them do to you" (Luke 6:31 NIV).

Back when Chris worked at a mortgage company, he heard a senior manager tell someone a different version: "He who has the gold makes the rules." This leader was letting business culture disciple him more than he was letting Jesus disciple him.

As followers of Jesus, we must believe that Jesus knows best when it comes to how to live life and how to do business.

In this final episode of our current series, A Mysterious Business, Chris recaps everything we've discussed in the series up to this point, and then concludes by addressing how sometimes business culture and church culture intersect in unhealthy ways.

Richard Halverson, former chaplain of the United States Senate, once said, "In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America, where it became an enterprise." The original vision of the church was the mystery of Christ. But the church tends to imitate the culture around it, regardless of what that culture is.

So in America, we run this risk—in both business life and church life—of letting the business culture around us tell us what success means. We run the risk of letting what Skye Jethani calls "Church Inc." take over, thinking about success in business terms, like how many people are attending and how much they're giving, without reference to the mystery of Christ.

But the church, at its best, can be a business school. Not by teaching how to do business, but by teaching why to do business. When you are part of a church community that is stewarding the mystery of God's presence faithfully, you learn that that's what matters. And that gives you a why not just for church life, but also for business life. Graduates of the business school of the church ask questions like this: Does my business convey the presence of God in the world? Does it communicate God's love?

A mysterious business is a business that has learned to "do everything in love" (1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV) from the church.

Sources:

Luke 6:31 (NIV)

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (NIV)

Dallas Willard, Called to Business: God's Way of Loving People Through Business and the Professions (Agoura Hills, California: Dallas Willard Ministries, 2018).

R. Paul Stevens, Work Matters: Lessons from Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012).

Pat Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (New York: Wiley, 2002).

Skye Jethani, Immeasurable: Reflections on the Soul of Ministry in the Age of Church, Inc. (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2017).

Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (New York: Random House, 2014), as quoted in Jeffrey S. Russell, Wayne P. Pferdehirt, and John S. Nelson, Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order, 3rd ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018), shared under CC BY 4.0.

Leo XIV. Magnifica Humanitas [Magnificent Humanity]. Encyclical letter, May 15, 2026. Vatican translation.

Lisa Marie Farver, "Employees Find Purpose Post-Prison At I Have A Bean In Wheaton," Business & Tech, Patch, March 28, 2023.

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In a couple words, how would you describe the best coworker you've ever had? Maybe kind, honest or hard-working. Now, how about the worst coworker you've ever had? Those words might be harder to come by. We don't tend to use terms like slothful, cruel or proud these days.

In Western culture, we've slowly lost the ability to describe other people's character, which has in turn compromised our ability to discern other people's character.

It wasn't always like this. Take, for example, this Help Wanted ad in Saunders's News-Letter from March 1778:

COOK WANTED

WANTED by a Gentleman who resides in the Country, a Person capable to serve as Cook and Housekeeper, who must perfectly understand the making Bread and raising Paste, and be well recommended for Sobriety, Diligence, and Honesty. Any Person so qualified may hear of a Place applying to the Printer hereof.

The Country Gentleman was looking for someone whose character was defined by sobriety, diligence, and honesty. There was language for such virtues, and confidence they could be discerned.

In our culture today, without the language for character, we take shortcuts. In hiring decisions, we don't know how to discern or describe character, so, for example, we simply screen candidates out based on their criminal record.

But the Bible teaches that it's possible to discern character—and that people can change. Is it possible that somebody who at one time in their life committed an action that was dark and wrong, now could have a consistent way of living in the world that's good and helpful and totally adequate for a specific job?

As disciples of Jesus, we can be advocates for the wisdom that comes from discerning character in our workplaces, in hiring decisions and beyond.

Sources:

Matthew 7:15-20 (NIV)

Matthew 11:2-6 (NIV)

Ephesians 2:1-5,10 (NIV)

Colossians 1:5-6,10 (NIV)

Barbara J Starmans, "Help Wanted: Sobriety, Diligence and Honesty Required," Occupations, The Social Historian, June 5, 2016.

Shannon Pettypiece, "Amid millions of open jobs, finding work remains a struggle with a criminal record," Politics, NBC News, October 15, 2023.

Lisa Marie Farver, "Employees Find Purpose Post-Prison At I Have A Bean In Wheaton," Business & Tech, Patch, March 28, 2023.

Max Nisen, "Tony Hsieh's Brilliant Strategy For Hiring Kind People," Strategy, Business Insider, November 22, 2013.

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Chris interviews Bonnie Kristian, author and deputy editor at Christianity Today, on her new book In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers. The book addresses the intersection of faith and evangelicalism with public life.

When we hear the phrase "public life," we often think of politics, but it also includes how businesses serve the public, which Bonnie examines through the story of Olympus Spa in Lynnwood, Washington. The Lee family, evangelical Christians who own the business, are now navigating—and contesting—a law requiring them to admit trans-identified males who have not had surgery into their female-only nude spa. What does it look like to love our neighbors well when public policy and faith convictions come into conflict? Or, as may be the case for many more of us, when we're simply afraid of our faith being misunderstood?

Bonnie speaks to these difficult questions with open eyes about the shortcomings of evangelicalism, while also calling those of us shaped by this movement to champion it with gratitude and live out our faith with confidence in the public sphere.

Sources:

Bonnie Kristian, In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers (New York: Forum Books, 2026).

Read an excerpt from the book with photos of Olympus Spa at Christianity Today.

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Have you ever made a fantastic investment? Maybe it's your retirement savings, a mutual fund, or a beautiful set of Cutco knives. When Chris was a little kid, he asked his dad to buy him stock in a company called World Air, and he doubled his money in the first six months! But Chris' second attempt at investing didn't go so well. This time it was 2007, and he asked his dad to buy him stock in Build-A-Bear. Then the 2008 crash happened, and nobody was buying expensive customized teddy bears.

CEO Mark Walter is a little savvier than Chris. He bought the Los Angeles Lakers for $10 billion. Mark saw what the team was worth, and he's been proved right: Just a year later, he's selling for $12.5 billion!

But Jesus is an even savvier investor than Mark Walter. In Matthew 13, Jesus shares parables about how the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, or a priceless pearl. Jesus is saying that it's worth selling everything we have to get the kingdom. Pastor John Ortberg says that if we saw how valuable the kingdom really was, we would be drawn to it with "unforced desire." We would willingly give up anything we have in order to get that kingdom.

Jesus is inviting us to give it all away for what really matters, and what really matters is the kingdom. As you apply this teaching to your work life, ask yourself, what really matters? How is the kingdom of God breaking in? How can you be present with Jesus in your daily work? How can you care for the common good of your community and colleagues? How can you give it all away?

Sources:

Matthew 13:44-46 (NIV)

Dallas Willard with John Ortberg, Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God, conference recording, "Knowing Christ Today," Dallas Willard Center, February 2013 (ChristianAudio.com, 2014).

Greg Beacham, "A Blockbuster $12.5B Deal as Josh Kushner and Bob Iger Agree to Buy the Lakers, AP Source Says," Associated Press, August 12, 2026.

David Gelles, "Sell the Company for $400 Million? He's Giving It Away Instead," Business, New York Times, July 25, 2026.

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When you receive a birthday or anniversary card, you often see two sets of writing: the elegantly worded section from the author at the card company, and a personal, handwritten note from the person giving you the card. Which part of the card carries more meaning for you? The handwritten note! While it may not be as elegantly worded as the printed message on the card, it carries a deeper weight because it brings a personal touch from someone that matters to you.

Can AI help us write with a personal touch? Or does it get in the way? Often, people argue that "AI can write it better than I can!" And while AI may produce something that sounds more polished more efficiently, we use AI for writing (even brainstorming or editing) at our peril.

To understand why, we need to look at what writing actually is. Writing was a technological advancement that made it possible to capture the human voice in a different medium that could be accessed by others in different times or places. This was an incredible technological advancement, and one that God inspired the authors of the Bible to use to write Holy Scripture. Words connected people to people.

Considered in this light, AI is a fundamentally different technological development than writing. Instead of serving as a medium for human communication, it displaces one of the human voices in the conversation. As Brett McCracken from The Gospel Goalition writes, "Writing is an art form and a labor of love. Love is something AI cannot do. Writing is a product of deeply human, necessarily inefficient processing, meandering, wrestling, noodling, cogitating, and often suffering. Suffering is something AI cannot do. For Christians, writing is a holy calling and an act of worship. Worship is something AI cannot do."

The words we speak and write matter. In Matthew 12, Jesus soberly warns us against speaking careless words. And while AI may be able to help us write more quickly or with more polish, does it help us write with more care of the kind Jesus describes?

At work as in the rest of life, what matters about our writing isn't how perfect it is, but how human it is. Ultimately, that's good news for imperfect human writers and workers like us.

Sources:

Matthew 12:33-37 (ESV)

Brett McCracken, "Our Line in the Sand on AI: TGC's Missional Opportunity," The Gospel Coalition, Current Affairs, August 5, 2026.

Kate Shellnut, "45 Things to Do When You Get Writer's Block," Past Deadline, April 19, 2026.

James Bryan Smith, The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2009).

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What do you think you'll do on a normal workday 10,000 years from now? In the new heavens and the new earth, we'll be working. We often think of the new heavens and the new earth as a setting of rest and celebration, but the truth is that work—good work!—will also be part of our lives in the age to come. God gave us work before the fall; it's part of his good design for human life.

But have you pondered what work looks like in the nearer future? In ten or twenty years, will there still be a place for the dignity of doing work, and for exercising creativity and agency? What is human work meant to be?

With the rise of artificial intelligence, the future of work is on everyone's mind. Dario Amadei, CEO of Anthropic, gives us his vision in his 2024 essay, "Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better." He posits that over the next decade, AI could help humanity to overcome disease, poverty, and inequality; people will be moved to tears as their dreams of what life should be come true.

While the eradication of disease, poverty and inequality would indeed move people to tears, AI can't bring that vision of the future into being. The fundamental human challenge isn't a technological problem; it's a sin problem.

What we need isn't a technological breakthrough to free us from the brokenness in the world, but someone to rescue us and teach us a better way to live. We need the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In Ephesians 4, Paul shares a different vision of what the future looks like. Here we read of Christ descending to the dead, then rising again three days later, and later ascending far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. Jesus is now enthroned in the place of full glory. Heaven and earth find their fulfillment in him. And he is working through the church to equip the saints for ministry, until we mature into "a full-grown man" (Ephesians 4:13).

So what does this mean for work, today and tomorrow? It means we don't need technology to remove all our limits; we need divine grace to mature us within those limits. It starts with slowing down and choosing a human-centered approach to work over efficiency and profit at all costs.

It means that as we walk with Jesus, he will grow us up into the kind of human beings (and human workers) we were always meant to be.

Sources:

Ephesians 4:7-16 (ESV)

Leo XIV. Magnifica Humanitas [Magnificent Humanity]. Encyclical letter, May 15, 2026. Vatican translation.

Steven Garber, Hints of Hope: Essays on Making Peace with the Proximate (Orleans, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press, 2026).

Dario Amodei, "Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better." October 2024.

Richard Brautigan, "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace," Allpoetry.

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