{"id":604,"date":"2006-11-25T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2006-11\/25\/evangelism-at-work-through-the-interview-process\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T19:54:18","slug":"evangelism-at-work-through-the-interview-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/evangelism-at-work-through-the-interview-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism at Work through the Interview Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I considered <strong>ways that Christians could evangelize even in a secular workplace<\/strong>.&nbsp; One of the ways I thought this could be done is through interviewing and\/or promotion situations.&nbsp; (This idea came years ago when I started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanobioscience.com\/\">Sano Bioscience International <\/a> an executive recruiting company focused on biotechs entering the FDA approval process). Here is what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Situation <\/strong>&#8211; You are in a position of interviewing, considering someone for promotion or otherwise assessing them.&nbsp; In this position you ask them questions (always recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanobioscience.com\/interview_process.html\">behavioral based interviewing<\/a>).&nbsp; After the period of interviewing, you end with one final assignment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assignment<\/strong> &#8211; In order to see their skills in logic, writing, creative thinking and ability to form persuasive discourse you ask them to present a 2 page argument for <em>Where Morality Comes From<\/em>. You&#039;d let them know they are not being evaluated on their &#039;position&#039; but presentation, thought and articulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evangelism Opportunity <\/strong>&#8211; To assist them, you hand them three &#039;examples&#039;.&nbsp; Two are from secular positions that are common worldviews, eg. social contract ethics, etc.&nbsp; The third is a solid Biblical position that addresses the previous two and presents a presuppositional apologetic for the God of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose is to confront non-Biblical worldviews, hoping that people are forced to re-consider their stance.&nbsp; And then to present a Biblical worldview as the only viable option.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I considered ways that Christians could evangelize even in a secular workplace.&nbsp; One of the ways I thought this could be done is through interviewing and\/or promotion situations.&nbsp; (This idea came years ago when I started Sano Bioscience International an executive recruiting company focused on biotechs entering the FDA approval process). Here is what I came up with: Situation &#8211; You are in a position of interviewing, considering someone for promotion or otherwise assessing them.&nbsp; In this position you ask them questions (always recommend behavioral based interviewing).&nbsp; After the period of interviewing, you end with one final assignment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Assignment &#8211; In order to see their skills in logic, writing, creative thinking and ability to form persuasive discourse you ask them to present a 2 page argument for Where Morality Comes From. You&#039;d let them know they are not being evaluated on their &#039;position&#039; but presentation, thought and articulation. Evangelism Opportunity &#8211; To assist them, you hand them three &#039;examples&#039;.&nbsp; Two are from secular positions that are common worldviews, eg. social contract ethics, etc.&nbsp; The third is a solid Biblical position that addresses the previous two and presents a presuppositional apologetic for the God of the Bible&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}