In this month’s issue of
Christianity Today, John D. Beckett, chairman of the privately held R. W. Beckett Corporation,
speaks about his new book,
Mastering Monday: A Guide to Integrating Faith and Work.
When asked, “Do you think churches still don’t understand business as a calling?” Beckett responds,
I do. Relatively few churches and pastors are reinforcing the legitimacy of a call into so-called “secular work.” I have colleagues with tremendous business influence who are starving spiritually in their local churches. There’s zero feeding; there’s zero reinforcing of the call they have in the marketplace.
There’s still much work to be done. Check out the trailer for Acton’s forthcoming documentary, “The Call of the Entrepreneur”
here.
Acton scholars continue to pop up across your radio dial. A couple of recent highlights:
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