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Authentic Manhood

Authentic Manhood. Winning at Work & Home. Session 14:. Making a Name for Yourself at Work. What’s in a Name?. Hopefully, a growing and good reputation. A good name is to be more desired than great riches. Proverbs 22:1.

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Authentic Manhood

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  1. Authentic Manhood Winning at Work & Home Session 14: Making a Name for Yourself at Work

  2. What’s in a Name? Hopefully, a growing and good reputation. A good name is to be more desired than great riches. Proverbs 22:1

  3. Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name at Work A. Don’t just work; work to be “really good” at something. Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. Proverbs 22:29

  4. Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name at Work B. Be responsive to those above you and earn their trust. A faithful employee is as invigorating as a cool day in the hot summertime. He refreshes the soul of his boss. Proverbs 25:13

  5. Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name at Work C. Overdeliver Poor is he who works with lazy hands, but hard working hands get rich. Proverbs 10:4

  6. Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name at Work D. Be an encourager and team builder. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for the building up of one another according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29

  7. Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name at Work E. Keep your word. “But let your statement be ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil. Matthew 5:37 He swears to his own hurt, yet he does not change. Psalm 15:4

  8. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work A. Never lie or cheat. He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. Proverbs 10:9

  9. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work A. Never lie or cheat. 1. Four most common lies at work: • Lying to get a job. • Lying to make money. • Lying to advance one’s career. • Lying when called on the carpet.

  10. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work A. Never lie or cheat. 2. Decide now ... not later ... • To always say “no” to deception. A wise man foresees the evil ahead and prepares for it; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3

  11. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work A. Never lie or cheat. 2. Decide now ... not later ... • To always say “no” to deception. • To trust God for the outcome.

  12. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. Flee immorality ... 1 Corinthians 6:18

  13. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 1. It’s vocational self-destruction. The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; he who would destroy himself does it. Proverbs 6:32

  14. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 2. It leaves a long term stain on your name. Wounds and disgrace an immoral man will find, and his reproach will not be blotted out. Proverbs 6:33

  15. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 3. Watch out for the “black widow.” And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. She is boisterous and rebellious, her feet do not remain at home; she is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner. “I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.”

  16. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 3. Watch out for the “black widow.” With her many persuasions she entices him; with her flattering lips she seduces him. Suddenly he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, until an arrow pierces through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, so he does not know that it will cost him his life. Proverbs 7:10-12, 15, 21-23

  17. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 4. Decide now ... not later ... • To never travel with a woman alone. • To have a “see through” office. • To avoid “innocent flirting” as a married man.

  18. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 4. Decide now ... not later ... Do not desire her beauty in your heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Proverbs 6:25, 27

  19. Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name at Work B. Avoid immorality at all cost. 4. Decide now ... not later ... • To never travel with a woman alone. • To have a “see through” office. • To avoid “innocent flirting” as a married man. • To have a partner watching out for you.

  20. The Benefits of a Good Name A. People admire you as a man. B. You influence others in a positive way. C. Young men seek you out. 1. For advice 2. For mentoring D. God is honored and you feel His pleasure. E. You feel a deep satisfaction about your work.

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