Christianity at Work

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by Paul Wesslund

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Can Christianity really work in both life and business today? I am a good Christian, but... ...it's just business. ...I have a family to take care of. ...I didn't do anything illegal. Trying to match the directives of the Bible with the reality of living in modern society can make us feel like failures in faith. Jesus sets a pretty high standard to start with. Then popular culture offers us excuses that everything we do is OK as long as we go to church on Sunday and ask for forgiveness. There's not much reward for scriptural values like love, compassion, and decency. It doesn't have to be that way. Christianity at Work is a study guide that offers a roadmap for succeeding in life and in business by following the same values in church, at home, and at work. The study guide's six lessons pair scripture with the real-world business experiences of Sal and Cindy Rubino, restaurant owners who reinvented themselves as more faithful followers of Christ after business failures that threatened to tear their family apart. The result, documented in the book Small Business, Big Heart: How One Family Redefined the Bottom Line, changed their lives. It's a story of achieving a family-saving work/life balance as well as business success. Christianity at Work offers a practical, proven lesson for how we can follow the scriptural directive "to walk humbly with your God." Paul Wesslund grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he went to Macalester College. He worked four years as a reporter and copyeditor at daily newspapers in North Dakota, then moved to Washington, DC, to work at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association as an energy writer and managing communications and community involvement programs. He worked the next twenty years as editor of Kentucky Living magazine and vice president for communications for the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives in Louisville, before retiring to do freelance writing and communications consulting, including writing the book Small Business, Big Heart: How One Family Redefined the Bottom Line.Paul is active in his church, St. Paul United Methodist in Louisville, where he helped start the Christian Action group that focuses on environmental and racial justice and church LGBTQ+ issues.He and his wife, Debbie, live in Louisville, Kentucky, and have a daughter, Emma, who works in the Washington, DC, area, where she is involved in local theater. When Paul's not writing, he's likely attending a concert or curating his collection of music that includes jazz, classical, alternative and classic rock, country, electronic, African Soukous, and especially the blues. After graduating with a degree in Graphic Design and working in an ad agency, Sue Mink wrote hand-knitting patterns, went to seminary, taught in an alternative high school, and is now writing theological studies, primarily for Abingdon Press, the publishing house of the United Methodist Church. She and her husband have two grown children. Since 2015, they live in a small town in Virginia during the summers and winters. In the spring and fall, they choose another place in the world to live for three months and work remotely. Some of the places they've chosen to live are Florence, Italy; Krakow, Poland; Taipei, Taiwan; and Bucharest, Romania.

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