1. Develop a brief article addressing these topics:
   1. What principles guide how youmake decisionsat work?
   2. What values do you carry in the workplace that impact theattitude you displaytowards your coworkers?
   3. What moral boundariesgovern your behaviorin the workplace?
   4. How do these guiding principles, values, and boundaries align with the tenets and traditions of the Christian faith?
2. Include at least three citations of biblical scripture supporting your points.

Use the two items as references:Colossians 3:23-24(new tab)and review the Tenets Chart.pdf.

1. ²³Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, ²⁴since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Scripture Christian Tradition Person of Christ The Bible is inspired testimony to the The Wesleyan tradition The core of Jesus's love and love, grace, power, and goodness understands the Bible as a book mission was self-sacrifice. He of God for all humanity. It is a about salvation-life in became a servant and took on coherent but complex collection relationship God. God is working flesh, lived among us, and died set in original contexts that still to bring human beings into a for us. In his life and his death, speaks with vitality and authority to relationship with the Father, Son, Jesus is a model for the formation us today. and Spirit. of our character. Scripture emphasizes stories of The Wesleyan tradition has had Jesus lived and proclaimed redemption/salvation at the an emphasis bringing both the service to others as the highest beginning of both testaments. God gospel and justice to bear in form of relationship and seeks to redeem creation by places of difficulty, diversity, and leadership. making a covenant with Abraham. oppression in the broader world God seeks to rescue Israel from le.g., preaching to miners in slavery through the Exodus. God England, ordaining women, seeks to reconcile all humanity working for the abolition of through Jesus Christ. slavery in America). The instructive books of Scripture The Wesleyan tradition has an Jesus in his life on earth that follow the narrative (e.g.. inclusive and ecumenical stream demonstrated dependence upon Proverbs, prophets, the letters of the in it. It has welcomed insights and confidence in God the New Testament) emphasize the from the Protestant, Catholic, Father and the Spirit. His relational connection of proper belief and and Orthodox traditions. Thus, we connection to God empowered proper action. Worship and ethics are open to insights from across and sustained him. go hand in hand. As Jesus taught, the historic and orthodox loving God and loving neighbor Christian tradition. belong together. This is enabled through the activity of God's Spirit in the lives of people. God began with Abraham, The Wesleyan tradition has Jesus was a prophet for extended a covenant to Israel, and valued and benefitted from its holistic justice, challenging unjust opened the invitation of the gospel tradition of psalms, hymns, and and oppressive power with his to all peoples. Thus, the direction of spiritual songs. Poetry, music, and words and freeing people's Scripture is toward greater singing have been and continue bodies and beings from the openness and diversity, welcoming to be powerful forms for powers of evil by his actions. Jesus diverse people and perspectives communicating and came to those excluded by the into a community that model's experiencing the gospel. society around him (tax collectors, God's love and justice. the demon possessed, and other "sinners") and welcomed them into his company of disciples. While the large story of Scripture The Wesleyan tradition is Jesus's character and life has importance, the diversity and characterized by an "optimism of exemplifies faithfulness. His life and complexity of Scripture invites us to grace." We believe that the Spirit death were an expression of interact with specific passages in- of God is at work in the world for God's loving faithfulness. He was depth to hear what God is saying good and that God's Spirit can faithful to God. He was faithful to through each one. transform human beings in other people. powerful ways