A few years back I was reading from Habakkuk 2:2 where God challenges the prophet to

“Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets, so he may run who reads it."

This is my modern paraphrase that serves as the mission statement for the Faith At Work Blog (FAWB)

"Cast a vision for faith at work (embodied truth in action), make it plain upon the Internet (with links, keywords, trackbacks and RSS) so that he/she (a web surfing worker) who reads it (and follows the links) may run with it (take their faith to work to make a difference and then start a faith at work blog (FAWB) to tell others how it is making a difference)."

There are many people of faith, who if they heard and understood God's vision for them at work would readily run with it. The problem is that the vision they get from their local pastor, priest or minister for faith at work has more to do with the Pastor's vision for the work they can do for the church after work hours than God's vision for what He has called them to do during work hours.

Blogging is my way of bypassing a church centric view of faith to get to Christians at work so they can catch the vision! It is a way for people of faith to discover God's calling for them in their life context and be empowered to do it where they live and work. Church centric ministry is confined to the four walls of an institution, one Sunday morning a week and is often very disconnected from what most church members do for most of their time Monday to Friday and that is work. It is simply not going to provide the direction or the equipping people need to do what God is calling them to do in the place they find themselves which is usually the workplace.

Thus we have a Faith at Work Blog!