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\u201cFor our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms\u201d<\/em> (Ephesians 6:12).<\/p>\n Living according to rules and regulations and by our own human efforts is a trap set by the religious spirit in the workplace that we can all fall into. Do you know the signs of the religious spirit when it is operating in the workplace? The religious spirit discourages a genuine move of God and will thwart the activity of God under the banner of religious righteousness and dogma. It also motivates believers to live out their faith in legalistic and rigid ways. We need to be aware of how this happens in a workplace. Here are some characteristics of how the religious spirit manifests itself in believers in workplace situations:<\/p>\n -Workers may have difficulty praying and applying -Workers may believe that biblical truths apply only -Workers may focus on evangelizing coworkers, but fail -Workers may give greater priority to religious -Workers maintain a \u201cus\u201d versus \u201cthem\u201d -Workers may refuse to join a workplace prayer group -Workers feel the need to compartmentalize faith -Workers discount the idea that Christianity could Beware of this when trying to encourage faith in your workplace. Remember, Stephen was the first martyr in the early church at the hands of religious leaders. You will find your greatest resistance often comes from those in the religious community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recognizing the Religious Spirit in the Workplace \u201cFor our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms\u201d (Ephesians 6:12). Living according to rules and regulations and by our own human efforts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4008,91,1016,1149],"class_list":{"0":"post-27729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-recognizing","9":"tag-religious","10":"tag-spirit","11":"tag-workplace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
God\u2019s promises to everyday work encounters.<\/p>\n
to their personal lives, families and churches, not to their jobs.<\/p>\n
to do their work with excellence.<\/p>\n
activity and events than to relationships with others at work.<\/p>\n
attitude when relating to non-Christians in the workplace.<\/p>\n
or Bible study because they feel that it is trying to replace the
role of their local church. Workers don\u2019t see a need for such
activity in the workplace.<\/p>\n
activities to their local church alone.<\/p>\n
transform a workplace, city, or nation as \u201coverzealous,\u201d
\u201cna?ve\u201d or even doctrinally wrong.<\/p>\n