Working with Christian Servant Leadership Spiritual Intelligence The
This book addresses how Christian leaders integrate faith into the workplace, through a love-based altruistic system of Christian Servant Leader Spiritual Intelligence (CSLSI). It hypothesizes how CSLSI positively influences a range of desirable employee
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Working with Christian Servant Leadership Spiritual Intelligence
Gary E. Roberts
Working with Christian Servant Leadership Spiritual Intelligence The Foundation of Vocational Success
Gary E. Roberts Regent University Escondido, California, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-58980-4 ISBN 978-1-137-58981-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58981-1
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To my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who is the author and finisher of our faith and the foundation of this book. I thank my wonderful wife Connie, my beloved mother Joyce, and sister Sharon, and my precious daughters Alyssa, Sandra, and Christin for their love and support. I dedicate this book to my students and colleagues at Regent University with gratitude and humility.
INTRODUCTION
Authentically and passionately honoring the calling that God places on Christians within the arena of the workplace is one of the great challenges of faith integrity. A foundational enemy of the Christian faith is compartmentalization and the lukewarm state that it generates. The increasing secularization of modern culture promotes and validates the marginalization of religious faith, providing a convenient and tempting rationale to adopt alternative worldviews from moral relativism, utilitarianism, hedonism, and materialism to Darwinian “survival of the fittest” and a plethora of spiritual, but nonreligious, approaches. The pernicious effect is to create a climate that promotes cultural norms that reject active faith integration in an increasing number of settings. However, Christians cannot absolve themselves of responsibility for being “hearers and doers” of the faith in the presence of ambivalence to increasingly hostile attitudes and overt or
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