Working Outside the Church and Home (an interview with Macy English)

Author: North American Mission Board
Published: Mon 06 Mar 2023
Episode Link: https://www.namb.net/podcasts/ministry-wives-podcast/working-outside-the-church-and-home-an-interview-with-macy-english/

If God calls you to work outside the home or church, you may experience guilt or fear because you are filling a role that looks different from the traditional ministry wife “mold.” Pastor’s wife and business owner Macy English explains how she overcomes these misgivings by communicating with her husband and practicing open-handed stewardship before the Lord.

SHOW NOTES

Scripture teaches that all work is sacred, whether it’s inside the church walls or outside the church.

Don’t allow the guilt or fear of being different from the “mold” keep you from being a faithful steward of what He has gifted and called you to do.

Practice open-handed stewardship by regularly going before the Lord with your spouse, laying down your life, work and ministry before Him.

QUOTES

“When we start to look at all of work as sacred, the Lord can redeem and birth something really beautiful out of the Excel spreadsheet I’m building. In conversations around being gospel centered in our homes, there’s lots of conversation about taking the mundane, redeeming it and seeing that we’re doing a good work, whether it’s laundry or dishes, or getting kids ready for school. I wanna take that conversation and actually think about what that looks like in work as well with the tasks that the Lord has given us. How can we steward, honor and glorify Him with the skills He’s given us?”

-Macy English

“The joy is so great when we see that we’ve been good stewards of what the Lord has given us and we can’t shrink back in fear because we will stand before the Lord. We will not stand before men when we have to give an account for what we’ve done with what we’ve been given.”

-Macy English