How to Select Your Jobs by the Character of Your Boss

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"We become who we behold around us every day in our work," she says. "To avoid, avoid bosses where you know from the outset that all is not well because it will be very difficult to kind of resist being sucked in." For a young person or any person at any age, seeking their next job if they were to take serious this idea of I really want to vet and make sure the character of my boss is going to be one that forms me in the right direction".

We’ve witnessed story after story about the abuse of power practiced by Christians and Christian institutions. Does that mean that, to quote Lord Acton, that “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely?” How should followers of Jesus relate to the possibility of wielding power? Cherie Harder, the President of The Trinity Forum, is ideally suited to address these questions. She’s spent a lifetime in the corridors of power and shares a wealth of theological and practical wisdom on this important topic.

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For a helpful theological examination about power, check out Andy Crouch’s Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power.

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