There was once a retail store clerk by the name of Fred, who not only was extremely rude to the store’s customers, but lazy as well. On several occasions, his boss was about to firehim. But he didn’t follow through because of his concern for Fred’s wife and children, who would suffer from his dismissal.<\/p>\n
One day a regular customer stopped in and noticed that Fred wasn’t there. He asked the manager about him and was told that he had taken another job. The customer asked, “Are you planning to replace him?” The manager replied, “No, it isn’t necessary. Fred didn’t leave a vacancy.”<\/p>\n
The store clerk’s work was of such poor quality that the business was better off without him. That should never be true of any employee, especially a Christian.<\/p>\n
The apostle Paul told servants to be obedient to their masters “with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men” (Ephesians 6:7).<\/p>\n
God expected Christian servants in Paul’s day to work diligently for their masters, and we too should give our employers an honest day’s work. It’s the right thing to do, and it strengthens our influence for Christ (cf. Matthew 5:14-16).<\/p>\n
One good way to test the value of our work, is to ask ourselves this question: If I left my job, would it leave a vacancy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There was once a retail store clerk by the name of Fred, who not only was extremely rude to the store’s customers, but lazy as well. On several occasions, his boss was about to firehim. But he didn’t follow through because of his concern for Fred’s wife and children, who would suffer from his dismissal. … Continue reading “Bulletin Article on Work – Would We Leave A Vacancy? – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}