A few weeks ago encouraged me to check out the website of the St. Louis group of Connecting Business Men To Christ (CBMC). When I visited the site an intro flashed up with some interesting statistics. It said "research shows that each day the average business man spends...
10.5 hours serving your company, making your boss, co-workers and company happy.
3.5 hours serving your family, making your wife, kids, parents and even grandparents happy
1.5 hours serving your community, making your neighbors, church members and associations happy
8.5 hours per day sleeping and eating, which isn't enough but you do so you can do the things above..."
How can we afford to separate our work and our faith? We can't afford to keep things segmented. There isn't any leftover time and we can't live being plagued with the the guilt of being unable to give more time to ministry. The real question we need to be challenged with is "How can we take the 10.5 hours of each day and connect our faith to our work?"
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.