By John Posey, March 6, 2024

Representing Christ well in the workplace requires consistency between a person’s secret and public lives.  As Jesus taught, what a person does in secret will be rewarded by God the Father (Matthew 6:4). 

Five Spiritual Life Priorities:

1. Spiritual Fitness – Rhythms with Accountability.

2. Balance – Plan for personal growth and development.

3. Duplication – Family, Spiritual, Ministry.

4. Personal Ministry – Life on life.

5. Public Ministry – Excellence in your craft. 

Another word for duplication is the word discipleship,

Discipleship starts at home.

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates (Deuteronomy 6:4–9).

At my home church, Christ Covenant, we call discipleship “culture-making in the home.” Home life is a secret life. Nobody sees what you do in your home. But how you and your family live at home will eventually manifest publicly. You can’t hide who you are, good or bad.

Making disciples is duplication. Discipleship is transferable. It works in the workplace in your job or business. Duplication makes you more valuable in the workplace.

Working yourself out of a job provides opportunities for promotion and pay increases.

God the Father is pleased when you bear fruit when you duplicate yourself, as you are supposed to.  Jesus said: 

“I  am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples (John 15:5-8).

Bearing fruit is a metaphor Jesus used to describe duplication as the way a person demonstrates they are one of His disciples.  Abide in Jesus; make disciples.