First
United Methodist Church 
Study Guide and Daily Devotion
Monday, February 5
In our scripture study let’s continue our theme from this weekend’s worship: relationships in the workplace. Read Luke 10:25-37. How do you think this parable relates to how you are to live your faith in the workplace?Tuesday, February 6
Today we turn to the Sermon on the Mount and listen to Jesus’ words asking how they relate to our workplace relationships. Read Matthew 5:13-16. This is the calling. What does this mean in your life and workplace? In the rest of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches the implications of verses 13-16. Read Matthew 5:21-24, 27-30, 33-37, 38-48. How do these verses speak to how you live in your workplace? Do any of these verses apply to how you treat clients or customers? To how you treat those you do business with?Wednesday, February 7
Let’s return to the Sermon on the Mount to consider what Jesus’ words mean for our workplace relationships. Read Matthew 7:1-5. What do these verses mean? Is there ever a time to judge or discern that someone is doing something wrong? If so, what are these verses prohibiting? Read Matthew 7:13-14. What is the narrow way Jesus is speaking about? Read Matthew 7:24-27. Are you building your life, your career, on sand or solid rock?Thursday, February 8
Let’s turn to the letters of Paul today to consider how we are to live in the workplace. Read Romans 12:16-21. How do these verses speak to you about your workplace relationships? Read Colossians 3:12-14 – familiar words from this sermon series – how do they relate to the workplace? Pray for your boss, your subordinates and your co-workers today.Friday, February 9
Today we’ll look specifically at the relationship between boss and employee. Look over your notes from last weekend’s sermon. If you manage employees, what does it mean to consider them a “Thou” instead of an “It”? Read I Peter 5:2-3. How does this speak to managers? In Paul’s letter to Titus he describes the qualities needed in an “overseer” or “elder” – as you read the following passage consider how these same qualities are needed in someone in management in the secular world? Read Titus 1:6-9. Now let’s consider Paul’s words to servants and slaves – the Bible assumes slavery as a reality that will always be a part of the world – though it was the Bible’s teaching that led abolitionists to work to end slavery. Paul’s words to slaves can speak to us today about how we are to live as employees toward our employer or manager. How do you think the following verses apply to the relationship of employee to supervisor? Read Titus 2:9-10, Colossians 3:22-25 (and read 4:1 for Paul’s word to masters). What does it mean to consider your boss as a “thou” instead of an “It”? Pray for your boss today.