Episode 12

EP 12 Integrating the Spiritual- Part 4: Career

Published on: 28th June, 2023
  • Connection Card Question
  • Bringing a spiritual perspective into the workplace
  • Lauren’s “ministry mindset” with her career
  • Stewardship of your career
  • It’s fun to have a small business that can be used for the kingdom of God
  • Being intentional
  • Lauren: “everyone that works for me, knows that I am an active Christian, and everything in my business gets filtered through that”
  • Making sure to represent Jesus with integrity in your business practices and ethics
  • Utilizing your small business as a ministry tool
  • Capitalizing on the ability as a business owner to forfeit personal profit in hopes of introducing the unsaved to Jesus
  • Secular jobs FOR kingdom work
  • Being strategic in how you hire and budget ministry into your business
  • Erika’s work life
  • “Honoring the Lord and my parents in my work”
  • Working in “faith based” organizations vs secular
  • Erika’s weekly whiteboard and candy bowl example
  • Exposing coworkers to scripture
  • Not shoving it down your coworkers throat, but not shying away either
  • Bringing Christ to your work in tasteful ways
  • Don’t be obnoxious about being a Christian, it’s unattractive to the Lord
  • Working from home
  • Be authentic! Are you in the Word and spending time with Jesus regularly? If so, you won't have to “try” to be intentional about it, He will integrate Himself into your work life
  • Find yourself not representing Jesus well? Please step back and evaluate, it can be damaging to the name of Christ
  • Apologizing to your coworkers for Christ’s name sake
  • God has you where you are, it is your mission field
  • When the lost act lost, show love
  • Do not blow opportunities to expose the Light in a negative or dark work place, or because you’re in a job you hate
  • Deanna: set a rule early on that she would not work on Sunday mornings, even if that meant working every Friday/Saturday
  • Lauren’s work “seasons”
  • Sacrificing opportunities to make more money and climb the ladder, in order to make margin for ministry and family time
  • Fruit from a real relationship with Jesus
  • Seek first the Kingdom of God and all else will be added to you
  • Deanna’s testimony of stepping away from a secure salary position to start up a non profit women's ministry with no salary
  • Side gigs amidst full time womens ministry
  • The Lord will provide and supplement for those who obey His call
  • DeannaBartlettLLC launching this year
  • Any woman wanting to prioritize the spiritual into her life, try to integrate the spiritual into your work, you can and should do this
  • Personal examples from all 3 hosts of things we are proud of God doing through our jobs recently
  • Challenge: share any unique, fun or cool ways that YOU incorporate Jesus into YOUR work by emailing us at the ironwomenpodcast@gmail.com 

Resources mentioned: Overview of the Bible Course and Dare to Delight Conference Livestream at www.deannabartlett.org 

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The Iron Women
Three Generations
Welcome to the table, where three women of three generations are navigating together how to pursue God as Father, Jesus as Lord, and Spirit as Shepherd through every stage of life.
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Lauren Henriques

Lauren moved to to a small South Carolina town with her family three years ago to be closer to the mountains, so she thought. Unbeknownst to her, God had some bigger plans to deepen her passionate pursuit of Christ by propelling her forward in her understanding of the word of God through a local church. Lauren has always been a passionate, fun-loving, energetic encourager at her core! She has been zealously pursuing a relationship with Jesus Christ for just over 14 years after He saved her from a life rooted in recklessness and addiction. She now serves on the Women's Ministry team at her local church as the Media coordinator and continues to hone her skills and learn how to become a bible teacher in her local community. Lauren also owns and operates a small media company where she takes advantage of the opportunity to share Christ with people who may never ordinarily step foot through the doors of a church. She uses every opportunity she can to love God and love people passionately.