23 Workplace Rules for Servants

We live in a day when employees "have rights". And what is meant by rights is sometimes interpreted as the employer has to make the employee happy at work and must allow the employee to express himself. The Bible clearly states that the employee, when employed, is obligated to obey. Our cultural understanding of the workplace is being turned on its head right now, just like so many other institutions in our culture. When I survey this change historically I see the abuses of the system being used to discredit the whole system. In the midst of this workplace chaos, what is the Christian supposed to do and why? How does the Christian live in the secular world and work honestly for a living? How we understand employment says a lot about how we view the world. If we view the world through the biblical lens, then employment will also be understood that way. But if we see employment the way the world does, that would be an indication that we don't have a biblical lens by which we evaluate the world in which we live. When we think of slavery in the Bible, we have to understand that the Bible presents slavery simply as a reality of this world. The bible doesn't condone slavery. In fact, it condemns it. The old Puritans used to call it man stealing.