Ken Costa is Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank and Chairman of Alpha International. Drawing on his personal experience and with plenty of telling anecdotes, he writes engagingly on the issues of: ambition; tough decisions; work-life balance; stress; failure, disappointment and hope; money and giving; and spiritual renewal. Permeated with a robust if in places sketchy theology, Costa is convinced of the reality of God in the workplace and sees the Kingdom of God as the sphere of God’s goodness in the world. ‘We are called to advance that kingdom, sharing the “sphere of goodness” and extending it as we operate with God’s values’, the aim being to ‘build up God’s original plan of community’. He ends with a bold expression of hope that ‘The missionary effect of Christians at work living authentic lives, weak yet empowered by the Holy Spirit, vulnerable yet strengthened by God, anxious yet filled with peace, could, through a new outpouring of God’s Spirit, become the greatest evangelistic movement of our age’.
Source: Chaplaincy to People at Work