My new book is a
practical exploration of seven fundamental falsehoods taught to us by the world
around us. In The Sunday Monday Paradox and Six Other Lies That Keep Us Captive, I explore these seven lies. My new book is a fast-paced argument that exposes
these lies and explains in a straightforward manner how the truth told to us by
Jesus Christ provides the map to a better world,
to living a better life.
I wrote The Sunday/Monday Paradox to change
hearts. The more I watched the struggle
for a culture of life, the more I became convinced that the battle for
changing our culture is not in the courts, or in the legislature, but rather in
the human heart.
I start my argument
illustrating the brokenness of our world, emphasizing how the brokenness
results not from Creation, but from human behavior. I illustrate how human behavior causes
waste – wasted time, lost savings, lost jobs, broken lives – that force us to
work harder to overcome. I then turn
the focus of my argument from the headline catching mega crooks who have
betrayed their community on a grand scale to each of us who cause waste in
small but important ways.
I then provide a brief look
at organizations and how to understand them, not the MBA models which ignore
the human person, but on his unique explanation based on his decades of
experience and observation. With this
foundation, I build his argument for the importance of recognizing the
dignity of the human person and the role a culture of respect plays in the
relationship between those persons within an organization.
Using my two decades of
business experience and citing case after case of real life examples, I explore
and dismantle each of the lies to which people cling to defend their decision
to compartmentalize the values they learn on Sunday. First, I show that the first lie, “Sunday
morning values have no place in our Monday morning world.” is built on six lies,
which I proceed to examine and disprove.
The six other lies are:
·
The
purpose of an organization is to make money.
·
Improving
the performance of an organization requires technology and automation.
·
Christian
values are counter-cultural, counter productive and difficult to implement in
an organization.
·
Christian
values hurt the organization, and are a sign of weakness.
·
Human
beings are simply animals, with no relationship to the divine; a means to
economic ends.
·
You
are alone.
Finally, I explain the
important role faith plays in helping us live Sunday morning values more fully
in our lives.
Accepting these lies hampers
our ability to live fulfilling lives.
Many people accept them. Knowingly
or unknowingly, they live by them and even propagate them. Yet, there is a lot at stake. In a time when many people propagate
secularism, relativism and humanism and seek to replace a culture of life with
a culture of death, in a time when Christian values are assaulted from all
sides, and when our very dignity and relationship with the divine lies at stake,
every person must choose to participate in standing against the lies that seek
to strip us of our dignity.
This book is a must-read for
people whose hearts are open and who want to help change the hearts of
others. It is for those who want to
explain the relevance of Christianity in today's world and for those who are
ensnared in the lies of the world and struggling to escape.
Learn more about The Sunday Monday Paradox at
www.bringChrist2work.com.