In the workplace, who are the best workers? What’s the best kind of employee to have? Is there any difference between an employee who is a faithful Christian (emphasis on faithful) and one who is not a faithful Christian? If you’re an employer, why should you want to have a faithful Christian working for you? If you’re an employee, why should you want a faithful Christian working with you? If you’re a Christian employee, what should set you apart from all other employees?
A faithful Christian employee will always be honest. He will not lie to you, about you or for you! Since he has “put away lying,” he will “speak truth with his neighbor” (Eph. 4:25). He will not deceive, mislead or misrepresent (1 Pet. 2:1; 3:10).
A faithful Christian employee will never steal. She will not rob the employer’s time, money or supplies! In fact, not only will she not steal, but she will “labor, performing with [her] own hands what is good” (Eph. 4:28). She will not take anything that is not hers or specifically authorized by the boss.
A faithful Christian employee will work diligently all the time. He does not work “with eyeservice” (or “external service,” NASB), going about the right things when the boss is around to see it (Col. 3:22). But he works “with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart” (Eph. 6:5). The worker you see in public is the worker you’d find in private.
A faithful Christian employee will go above and beyond in her work. She will not cut corners or give a half-hearted effort. She will exceed expectations by going “the second mile” (cf. Matt. 5:41) in her tasks, working “heartily” (Col. 3:23) “with all [her] might” (Ecc. 9:10). “Slothful” will not describe her (Rom. 12:11).
A faithful Christian employee will be humble. He will not be “haughty” (Rom. 12:16), “conceited” (Gal. 5:26) or selfishly motivated (Phil. 2:3a). Rather, he will put others first (Phil. 2:3b) and treat them as he would like to be treated (Luke 6:31).
How about another five reasons? A faithful Christian employee will not gossip (Tit. 3:2), manipulate (1 Pet. 2:1), curse (Eph. 4:29), scream to make a point (Eph. 4:31) or sleep around (1 Cor. 6:18).
Faithful Christian employees do all of this because they are doing their work “as bondservants of Christ…doing the will of God” (Eph. 6:6), “fearing God” and working “as to the Lord and not to men” (Col. 3:23). Their main concern is to “serve the Lord Christ,” their “Master in heaven,” and to “receive the reward of [His] inheritance” (Col. 3:24-4:1). Are you an employee? Are you a faithful Christian as an employee? You should be the best employee there!