Trading With God: Seven Steps to Integrate Your Faith into Your Work
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Can I work for an energy company and still be a Christian? This question from a young professional working in the author’s London trading department sparked a journey that resulted in this book. Trading With God addresses the relevancy of the Christian faith in today’s workplace. Recognizing that Christianity is a 24/7 endeavor, this book provides the framework and tools for the reader to make the critical connection between your actual daily work activities and what God created you to do. This enables Christians to find the most meaning in their jobs and journey of faith. Trading With God delivers in three parts. First, it grounds readers with history, scriptural references, and summarized concepts of faithful work developed over time by various church theologians. Second, a practical threefold model for Christians is introduced for daily application throughout their working lives. And third, the book builds seven steps to apply this model, which are illustrated by personal stories based upon the author’s thirty-four years of professional workplace experiences and theological research. Integrating faith and work using these seven steps can infuse more meaning into any vocation and can transform all workers, as well as the workplace and the wider community.
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“From a background of lifelong Christian faith practice but
unrecognized personal struggle with the real-world interface of
work and faith, Ken Snodgrass addresses this observed
behavioral-faith conflict. His well-conceived, practical book is a
model to contemplate and apply. . . . Trading With God is a
success.”
—Harold D. Cain, MD, FCCP
“Combining his distinguished experience in the corporate world with
a clear passion for theology, Ken Snodgrass has produced an
eminently readable and practical book. If you have ever felt
tension between Sunday and the workweek, if you are interested in
concrete suggestions for integrating faith and work that are deeply
grounded in the riches of the Christian theological tradition, this
book is for you!”
—David H. Jensen, Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary
“Snodgrass offers a timely reflection on a theology of work in an
age of greater secularization and growing population sectors with
no religious affiliation. . . . Snodgrass seamlessly weaves
personal anecdotes with deep biblical and theological analysis of
authors such as Calvin, Barth, and Moltmann and concludes with a
reminder of the responsibility for every Christian to understand
one’s vocational calling within a missional understanding of God’s
purpose for creation.”
—Philip Wingeler-Rayo, Wesley Theological Seminary
“Through story and example, Scripture and suggestion, Ken Snodgrass
allows us all to deeply consider the possibility of an integrated,
intentional existence.”
—Bobbi Kaye Jones, Elder in the United Methodist Church
Product Details
- Title : Trading With God: Seven Steps to Integrate Your Faith into Your Work
- Author: Snodgrass, Ken
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781532683299
Ken Snodgrass retired in 2014 after thirty-four years of working
in energy. His last position was general manager of Shell Energy
Europe Ltd. After retirement, Ken attended seminary to study
theology, church history, and Scripture in preparation for writing
this book. Ken has a degree in chemical engineering from Colorado
School of Mines, a master’s degree in business administration from
University of Houston, and a master’s degree in theological studies
from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.