"The spiritual manifests itself in a life which knows no division into sacred and secular."

Oswald Chambers


"Spirituality in the workplace is exploding."

Laura Nash, Business Ethicist,Harvard University


His doing nothing wonderful (his first 30 years) is in itself a kind of wonder."

Saint Bonaventure.


"God is marshalling his people in the workplace as never before in history. God is up to something. The next spiritual awakening could take place in the marketplace."

Henry Blackaby


"Workplace believers seldom feel served by their churches in their jobs and careers on issues of faith and biblical ethics."

Pete Hammond, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship


"We are convinced that England will never be converted until the laity use the opportunities daily afforded by their various professions, crafts and occupations."

Towards the Conversion of England, 1945


"There is a distinction between church work and the work of the church. Church work is what you do for the organized institution of the church. The work of the church is what is done between Sundays when the church is scattered all over the metropolitan area where it is located - in homes, schools, offices, on construction jobs, in market places."

Dick Halverson


"It is an error to think that those who flee worldly affairs and engage in contemplation are leading an angelic life...We know that men were created to busy themselves with labor and that no sacrifice is more pleasing to God than when each one attends to his calling and studies well to live for the common good."

John Calvin


"Workplace ministry will be one of the core future innovations in church ministry."

George Barna, Boiling Point, Regal Publishing


"If Christ is not Lord of my work, He will never be Lord of my family."

Doug Sherman, author, Your Work Matters to God


"We have more Christians today per capita with less impact on the culture than ever before. We are big and we are weak."

Land Cope, YWAM


"Our surveys reveal that 90-97% of Christians have never heard a sermon relating biblical principles to their work life."

Doug Sherman, author, Your Work Matters to God.


San Francisco radio station survey revealed an 80% dissatisfaction rate for a person's work.

The Wall Street Journal survey revealed a 50% dissatisfaction rate among executives and 80% dissatisfaction rate among general workplace population. 500 surveys among Christians reveal a 50% dissatisfaction rate.

"Societal transformation is high on God's agenda and the chief catalytic force to bring it about will be Christians ministering in the marketplace."

C. Peter Wagner, Chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute


"The church in the workplace is the purest form of the body of Christ today due to its diversity. Workplace believers are less prone to denominational differences because they have a common goal of representing Christ in their workplaces. The movement will break down denominational barriers that have been held in the past."

Os Hillman, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries


"The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace."

Ed Silvoso, Anointed for Business, Harvest Evangelism


"Indeed, as with first-century Christianity, it all begins in the marketplace, where the disciples of Jesus daily rub shoulders with the lost."

Bill McCartney, Promise Keepers, Anointed for Business, Reqal Publishing


"In today's global community, the greatest channel of distribution for 'salt and light' is the business community. the marketplace."

Bill Pollard, Chairman, ServiceMaster


"There is truly is no division between sacred and secular except what we have created. And that is why the division of the legitimate roles and functions of human life into the sacred and secular does incalculable damage to our individual lives and the cause of Christ. Holy people must stop going into "church work" as their natural course of action and take up holy orders in farming, industry, law, education, banking, and journalism with the same zeal previously given to evangelism or to pastoral and missionary work."

Dallas Willard, The Spirit of Discipline


"Much of our culture has a distinctly Greek view of work: We work out of necessity. But, you see, we are made in the image of God, and as such we are made to work-to create, to shape, to bring order out of disorder."

Chuck Colson, BreakPoint, Sept 1, 2003


"The workplace is where a majority of a church congregation, spends a majority of their time, interacting with a majority of the unchurched world. The Church on Monday is evidence that the Church on Sunday is real!"

Doug Spada, His Church at Work.org


"The last 12 to 24 months I have personally noticed a surge of interest. I see an openness from pastors that is very new that I have not seen before. I see a Kingdom mentality. I promise you we are within months of a major move of God."

Kent Humprheys, President, Fellowship of Companies for Christ.


"I believe pastors will be the last to really embrace this movement because it is such a new paradigm. However, ultimately, they will be the instruments God will use to make the greatest impact in the movement because of their influence in so many people's lives."

Os Hillman, Director, International Coalition of Workplace Ministries