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Christ Works Learning Series

Doing Business with God

Taken from the Cornerstone faith and work forums, these four lessons look at ambition, honesty in the marketplace, what to do with profit and influence, and leading people through a crisis.

Daniel Reyes · 4 lessons · 1 hr 48 min · Recorded meeting series · Cornerstone Faith and Work

Lesson 1 of 4 · 29 min

Ambition under authority

The difference between driven ambition and obedient ambition.

Background for this lesson

Ambition is not the problem Scripture warns about; unsubmitted ambition is. Drive, vision, and appetite for hard work are gifts, but left unexamined they quietly turn a person's work into a way of proving their worth.

James writes plainly about the businessperson who plans a year of trade and never once asks what God intends. The rebuke is not aimed at planning — it is aimed at planning as if the outcome belonged to us.

This lesson asks a direct question: if the next promotion never comes, does your sense of who you are survive it?

Passages in this lesson

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Questions to think through

  1. 1What are you currently pursuing that you have never actually prayed about?
  2. 2Where is your work carrying weight it was never meant to carry?
  3. 3What would obedient ambition change about your next ninety days?

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