Ken Costa - God at Work: Live Each Day with Purpose
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God calls us to the work we are doing. Hes interested not only in what we do, but how we do it. Yet, finding purpose at work is one of the greatest challenges of our world today.
Does my work matter to God? Is ambition good? How do I deal with failure? How do I make difficult decisions?
Ken Costa shares his practical insights and experience gained from more than forty years working in finance. This timeless message, that there is space for faith at work, will truly inspire you to live each day with purpose.
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My friend Ken Costa, in his book God at Work, shares practical and life-changing steps to live out your faith at work and bring glory to God. Outside of your marriage and family, God uses work as a school for character development. Youll experience tremendous joy in letting God work in you and through you at work.
R ICK W ARREN
P ASTOR , S ADDLEBACK C HURCH ,
AND A UTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL
BESTSELLER , The Purpose Driven Life
I can think of few people better qualified to write on the subject of faith in the workplace than my friend Ken Costa. His strong Christian faith and his skills in the world of finance mean that he has had to do what he writes about. I commend this book very warmly.
J USTIN W ELBY
A RCHBISHOP OF C ANTERBURY
No one is better qualified than Ken Costa to write a book like this. Throughout his rise to one of the most senior positions in the banking world, he has been an inspiration to countless Christians seeking to live out their faith in their workplaces. Ken and I met at Cambridge University, where we both became Christians. He has been one of my closest friends ever since. I am so glad he has been persuaded at last to put some of his wisdom and experience into print.
N ICKY G UMBEL
V ICAR OF HTB, L ONDON, AND
P IONEER OF THE A LPHA C OURSE
Packed with wisdom and practical advice for the workplacethis book will inspire, stretch, and challenge you.
S TEVE C HALKE
F OUNDER OF O ASIS G LOBAL AND F AITHWORKS
Ken Costa is one of the outstanding bankers of his generation, who is known for the passion, creativity, leadership, and strategic thinking that he brings to his professional life. He is also a person of a deep Christian faith, which comes out on almost every page of this book. God at Work is an extraordinary account of his own personal struggles with ambition, money, relationships, success, and failure. Integrating faith and work is a challenge for anyone in business, and I have no doubt that this book could transform the way you work.
L ORD G RIFFITHS OF F FORESTFACH
V ICE -C HAIRMAN , G OLDMAN
S ACHS I NTERNATIONAL
In these pages, Ken Costa brings to bear the experience of a varied and highly responsible professional life so as to show just how the transforming gospel is at work in the workplace. It is full of acumen, shrewdness, hopefulnessin short, it is a wise book, and a delight and profit to read.
R OWAN W ILLIAMS
F ORMER A RCHBISHOP OF C ANTERBURY
God at Work goes a long way in pulling down the barriers that exist between the sacred and the secular. Kens wide experience, from his theological training and Christian service at HTB and the Alpha program, to his success in the world of finance, makes him well qualified to write on the subject.
Can a Christian be fulfilled serving in the marketplace? How do worldly ideals of money, success, ambition, and power sit side by side with Christian virtues of love, justice, compassion, and service to God?
For anyone who has sought answers to these issues or anyone who has wondered how the Christian faith can thrive in a capitalist, market-driven workplace, this book is a must-read.
P ASTOR A GU I RUKWU
S ENIOR P ASTOR , J ESUS H OUSE
FOR ALL N ATIONS , L ONDON
Copyright 2016 by Ken Costa
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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton, a member of the Hodder Headline Group. All rights reserved. NIV is a trademark of International Bible Society. UK trademark number 1448790. Scripture marked The Message is taken from The Message. Copyright by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. Scripture marked KJV is taken from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crowns patentee, Cambridge University Press. The Holy Bible, Living Bible Edition, copyright Tyndale House Publishers 1971. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version ( ESV ) copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the publisher and the Library of Congress.
ISBN 9780718087647
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AS AN ACTIVE INVESTMENT BANKER AND FINANCIAL ADVISER IN THE city of London, I have read the Financial Times and the Bible almost every day for the last forty years. People often ask how I reconcile working in finance and being a Christian. There is a widespread view that God and business simply dont mix: the competitive, cutthroat demands of the marketplace are seen as the obvious enemy of Christian compassion and love. But I have found that the God who created and sustains the world is also the God of the workplace. If the Christian faith is not relevant in the workplace, it is not relevant at all. But where did this journey of faith start?
I was born in a nominally Christian country, South Africa, and grew up in the brutally oppressive apartheid era. From my early childhood I hated the fact that only white pupils could attend our school. I have never forgotten the day when we were told that the authorities had prevented children of color from receiving an education there. The injustice burns within me even now as I think back on it.
I became president of the Students Union at university in Johannesburg and was active in the student protest movements against the so-called Christian doctrine of apartheid, whose warped theology laid claim to biblical authority for its most vicious consequences. The cruelty of the separate but equal philosophy provoked in me a burning sense of injustice. Black students were not allowed into the university or halls of residence, and every form of social intercourse was cut off. Offended by such injustices carried out in the name of Christianity, I became anaesthetized to the personal claims of Christ. I thus rejected Christianity in favor of what I considered the only effective philosophy of life, and the only one that would liberate people from the intolerable inhumanity of the apartheid system: Marxs concept of man. In his book Marxs Concept of Man, Erich Fromm showed the way in which Marx outlined the path to freedom by stressing our common humanity, not merely our economic activities.
After completing a philosophy and law degree, I left South Africa because it had become clear to me that such resistance would never bring about peaceful change without a seismic change of heart. I continued my studies in England at the University of Cambridge. While there, I met a number of students whose lives had been changed during a Christian mission to the university. To this day they are among my best friends. Through them I came to see that at the center of the Christian faith there was not so much a system of thought, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whose life, crucifixion, and resurrection had brought about the only true freedom that I or anyone would ever find. One evening, alone in my room, I read through the whole of Marks gospel (because it was the shortest). I found both the claims and character of Christ compelling, and I saw in Jesus the free-est person who ever lived. Previously, I had heard only short sections of the Bible read at church services. The effect of reading the whole gospel in one sitting in a modern translation was electric. God was strangely one of us. I was struck by this picture of Christ as a human being who was committed to me. I therefore embraced the faith that I had grown up with but had hitherto neglected.
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