We are used to hearing people say faith has no place in the office. We are constantly told not to talk about religion and politics at work, and so many people either intentionally or unintentionally shy away from connecting faith to work. But if God is truly God then he should have supremacy over everything, work included.

The Russian writer Fyodor Doestevsky famously said “If God does not exist then all things are possible.” That is, if God does not exist we can and should do whatever we want. There are no consequences. We came from nothingness and return to nothingness, and there are no penalties for wrongdoing and no reward for rightdoing. We may as well do whatever we want, because there are no ramifications for our actions. It is easy to see how people can go from denying God or denying God’s relevance to committing all kinds of atrocities.

Richard Wumbrand was a pastor and holocaust survivor who was tortured for his faith and has spoke of how his torturers faith, or lack thereof, led them to do what they did. He said the following:

The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe when a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil. There is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil which is in man. The communist torturers often said “There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.” I have heard one torturer even say, “I thank God, in whom I don’t believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.” He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflicted on prisoners.[1]

My intentions for quoting Wurmbrand here is not to say that we commit atrocities equal to what was suffered in a concentration camp. That would trivialize Wurmbrand’s suffering and exaggerate our actions. But rather the intention is to show what is possible when God is removed from the picture. When God is no longer revered or relevant, all manner of things become possible.

Our Beliefs Have Implications

The role of the soldier and government, which is intended to do good to others (Rom 13:4), can become a vehicle of destruction. People can justify all manner of things if God does not exist or does not matter. Politicians mismanage the budget, lawyers sacrifice justice for profit, and salesmen lie to persuade customers.

There is no doubt then that a person’s view of God has a direct effect on how they work. What we think and believe about God dictates so much of what we do and do not do. Have you ever evaluated how much you think about God when you work? What does that say about your faith and your work?

If the God of the Bible exists, then he should have Lordship over every part of our life. All things are from him and to him and through him (Rom 11:34). Thus, we are to live and work for his glory, and this has consequences both in this life and the life to come.

Why This Blog

Unfortunately, for many reasons God has been severed from the workplace, and this has left many people wondering how to honor him in the specific situations they find themselves at work. This is the reason for this blog and ministry. It is to help encourage and equip men and women to know how to serve and honor God in the workplace, so that everything is done for him and through him.

Because we believe Jesus Christ is God become man, He alone is qualified as the one mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5).  The work of Jesus Christ enables us to experience God’s work in our work.  Our goal here is to explore together with you how best to apply a right view of God to serve others and be increasingly effective in the daily tasks before us.