OBJECTIVES 1. Describe the Biblical secret to success as a Christian organization. 2. Demonstrate the integration of the Christian philosophy in the workplace. 3. Identify the rewards of Christian service in a medical office.

AMEN 2019: Christ in You

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Breakout Session C

Fred Lee

Jane Lee

Reflecting Christ to Your Community as a Healthcare Provider

Lyndi Schwartz

Food As Medicine

Mark Finley

Brian Schwartz

Team Building: Praying With Patients

Brad Emde

The Glymphatic System, Glaucoma, and Outer Space

Jeffeory White

Christianity in the Workplace

What a privilege you have afforded us to take the time to spend together discussing your awesomeness and your love, your principles, and how they apply to our lives, but even more so how they apply to our work.

The things we do majority of our hours during the day.

You want to enhance it and you want to show your power to the dying world.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn and to share.

May we appreciate this afternoon and may you receive all the glory and honor for whatever it is that we achieve.

I want to just simply state to you that when I was asked to give this talk, I felt it was because of what I was living.

So I'm not here to give you an academic study.

I'm not here to record a whole lot of studies.

I'm here to talk about a case study, our practice, and how we have evolved or how we have utilized our Christianity in the workplace.

So I'm going to begin with a little bit of introduction about myself and we'll move forward.

And the objectives that we like to accomplish is we want to describe the biblical secret to success as a Christian organization.

We want to demonstrate the integration of the Christian philosophy in the workplace, and we want to identify the rewards of Christian service in the medical office.

I want to begin this by talking about my personal journey.

When I was a little kid, I was a very talkative child.

Matter of fact, my parents stated that they dreaded when my mouth opened.

They had no idea what was gonna come out.

Usually because, you know, most kids tell the what?

And adults, we kind of avoid that to a great degree.

And so they were very frightened of me and as I grew older my parents said listen son you're gonna be a preacher you're just going to be a preacher there's no other alternative you're gonna be a preacher and I would just fuss with them no I'm not gonna be a preacher oh yes you're gonna be a preacher and my mother would go through all of her things of wow and become a preacher.

And then I guess as I fought with them they said well at least maybe you'll be a lawyer.

Well I had another influence in my life and that was my older brother.

My older brother would walk around, he was like almost 6 years older than me, and he would walk around and people would say, what do you want to be when you grow up?

He says, I'm a medical missionary evangelist.

I remember growing up, what's a medical missionary evangelist?

He looked at me and says, it's a doctor, boy.

So as I once emulated my brother, I really would look forward to aspect of becoming a physician.

You know, like 1 son medical missionary of evangelism, but another son, we want you to be a preacher.

Well, nevertheless, what occurred was confusion.

I was a confused young man, wanting to please my parents, wanting to do something I thought I wanted to do because my big brother was gonna do it.

And I had what I call a very biased reason.

Well 1 day my brother who's a lot older than I came back from boarding school and he left a book and I was an avid reader of books when I was a little kid.

I just used to devour books and he left a book called Doctors, Doctors, Doctors and that book I don't think is in print any longer but it was a book full of just unbelievable stories about how physicians gave their lives for their patients and what they would do for them.

And it was story after story, and I used to read underneath my covers at night with a flashlight.

And I said, oh, this is what I've got to be.

But my parents didn't think I needed to be 1.

And with that confusion, I went on to school.

And while I was in college, I was still struggling.

I entered in pre-med, but I was still living with the idea of what my parents said.

And I said, am I making a mistake because something I want to do versus something that God wants me to do.

So I started praying and I started reading books like Ministry of Healing, Councils on Diets and Foods, and Councils on Health, and lo and behold, while reading Councils on Health, I had an epiphany.

Page 34 of Consonant Health it said this, the Savior devoted more time and labor to healing the afflicted of their maladies than to preaching.

His last injunction to his apostles, his representatives of earth, was to lay hands on the sick that they might recover.

When the master shall come, he will commend those who have visited the sick and relieve the necessities of the afflicted.

I said, mom, Jesus did more healing than preaching.

And that's not a statement that I just made up.

I saw what I always said, I want to be like Jesus.

But when I saw that statement, it gave me a ratification that I indeed could be a doctor.

So on what I pursued I went to Loma Linda University, graduated from there and I did my residency in pediatrics also in Loma Linda University.

It's a long story there which I don't have time to tell.

A person in this room is very acquainted with me in that story.

Nevertheless, I will tell you this, that when I made that decision, it was because my view of pediatrics was awful.

I did not want to go into it, but in the short run, because God put me with a lot of students who were what I call the bomb of the class when it came to attitude, I was stuck with these throughout my entire senior year of rotations.

And when I came to pediatrics, I said I can't live with these guys anymore.

I decided because I hated pediatrics, I was going to step it up to get away from them.

And lo and behold, stepping it up brought accolades of me I never dreamed about.

And everyone in the residency program, including the chief of the department of pediatrics, thought I wanted to be a pediatrician.

They didn't know I was running from somebody else.

He works in ways we don't even begin to imagine.

And I ended up being a pediatrician and I ended up going ahead and practicing general pediatrics because of my wife's insistence rather than going into hematology oncology.

So in January the 5th, 1981, I opened our practice in Dalton, Georgia.

I literally was walking in the door, hanging a shingle, and finding a nurse and finding a front office personnel.

I knew no 1 in that town other than the person who invited me there, who was a physician.

His daughter was a nurse at Loma Linda while I was there.

This doctor had made a promise to the black community that 1 day he'll get them a black doctor.

Little did I know anything about that at that time.

When I arrived there, I had 3 main goals in mind.

Number 1, I had to practice a practice like Jesus, compassionate and holistic care.

Daily devotions, prayer, that was a requirement every day.

Series

Breakout Session C

Christianity in the Workplace

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Dealing with Success & Failure - Maintaining Reliance on the Giver

46m

The Key of Your Testimony

52m

God's Love Stories (Noon Meetings)

9. Starting Right

42m

Optical

Small Differences with Big Consequences: A Story of Underrated Maladies

56m

Breakout Session A

Structuring Efficient Short-term Overseas Medical Missionary Trips

1h 1m

Elder's Basic Training and Deacon & Deaconess Basic Training

Elder’s Basic Training - Part 1

1h 7m

Right Foot, Left Foot, Lessons From the Journey

1h

Plenary

Hired Servants

53m

InVerse 3rd Quarter 2024: Stories that Transform

09 Giving to God

29m

The Truth About Being the Best, Following Jesus’ Example

37m

iShare 2014 Plenary Sessions

Testimony

47m

Surprised by Love

1h

Sound Doctrine