Session 4 - Equipping the Church in the Workplace - Action Plans

1. Equipping the Church
in the Workplace
Os Hillman
Session 4

2. ACCESS POWERPOINT AND
NOTES FROM ALL SESSIONS AT
WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/OSHILLMAN

3. 25 Action Steps to You Can
Do without Starting a Program
Session 4

4. 1. Establish a team of intercessors to pray for
workplace believers, businesses, and pray for God to
establish a ministry to workplace believers in your church.

5. 2. Present real-life examples of workplace
transformation—to inspire personal application in
different types of workplace environments.

6. 3. Preach sermons related
to workplace applications.

7. 4. Conduct a survey among
those in the church that asks this
question: “How might our church
help you apply your biblical faith
in the context of your daily work
life?” Provide five specific things
the church could do.

8. 5. Start an ongoing workplace
ministry/ outreach that mobilizes your
entire congregation into the workplace.
“Every member a minister!”

9. 6. Preach a series of
messages on the
priesthood of all
believers in the context
of work.
Preach on the five-fold ministry
in Ephesians 4 and how these
gifts and offices are found in the
workplace.

10. 7. Remove formal titles of church staff that would
tend to place them spiritually above members in the
church. Reinforce the concept that each person’s call
is equal in the sight of God. (This does not mean
church leaders are not the spiritual leaders and
shepherds.)

11. 8. Avoid addressing or favoring only those in “business” or
those with influence. Equip and train the whole workforce for ministry in
the workplace. Including mothers, students, executives, construction workers,
and professionals. Use term “workplace” vs “business”.

12. 9. Affirm workplace believers that their call is
equal to a vocational ministry call in its spiritual
importance.

13. 10. Understand the problem that often separates
workplace believers from church leaders. This
will help you see the heart of a workplace believer.

14. 11. Affirm workplace believers through church
commissioning services focused on the church
recognizing and confirming their calling (vocation) in a
formal way. Labor Day weekend sermon.

16. 12. There are hundreds of workplace ministries
that can be a resource for your local church.

17. 13. Provide discipleship
opportunities for your people.
TodayGodIsFirst.com

18. Testimony of a TGIF Subscriber
“In the summer of 2007 a friend recommended I
subscribe to TGIF. TGIF has really helped me,
especially when I was diagnosed in 2007 with stage 4
cancer, Melanoma. I can tell you I went to my office
every morning looking for a message from God through
TGIF. I was looking for any shred of hope I could get
from God through TGIF. I’m a fisherman. Os wrote a
message about how God makes fisherman out of each
of us and he taught me the stages of our call,
particularly the gestation stage and the crisis stage.
This message helped me make sense of the path that
God had me on.
God has been speaking to me through TGIF every
morning and leading me in my company. I am also glad
to report I have been healed of my cancer.”
- Dan, Tampa, Florida

19. 14. Begin a small-group
ministry in the workplace.

20. Faith&Work Book Resources
www.tgifbookstore.com
15. Read books on the movement and
make them available through your church
bookstore. See TGIFBookstore.com

21. 16. Place a workplace emphasis on your
missions or outreach budget in order to
focus your church in this area. You can also
support workplace ministries of your choice.

22. 17. Invite guest speakers to speak on faith and
work issues to introduce your congregation to the
movement and their unique calling to their vocations.

23. 18. Visit a workplace leader in his/her place of
business. Get an idea of the challenges they face
every day in their work life.

24. 19. Form a
workplace
committee that
meets with the
pastor once a
month to discuss
sermon ideas that
can be taught on
Sunday mornings
that relate to the
average worker.

25. 20. Teach a theology of work to your young
people so they do not have to relearn God’s view
of work.

26. 21. Allow one person each week to stand up and share a brief testimony
on how they experienced God’s presence in their workplace that week. Or,
record a weekly 2 minute video testimony that is played in the service a
few times a month.

27. • 22. Start a workplace Prayer, Care, Share
Love2020 campaign. Learn more at
www.Love2020.com/workplace
• Labor Day Initiative

28. 23. Host a workshop at your local church. .i.e.,
– Change Agent Workshop
– Joseph Calling workshop

29. 24. Involve workplace leaders in a community
transformation initiative.

30. 25. Integrate FW into Men’s Ministry
“If Christ is not Lord of my work, He’ll never be Lord of my family.”
– Doug Sherman, Author, Your Work Matters to God