A Christian business executive believes workers should not place their faith life and employment in separate “silos,” but rather should think of them as “one circle.”
David Ridley, chief executive officer of the Invesco Alternatives Group (USA) at Invesco Ltd, said in a podcast posted online Tuesday with Dallas Theological Seminary professor Darrell Bock that he used to have a different “silo” for each aspect of his life.
“When I was a younger man, I literally had my life figured out this way. I had my church silo, or circle, I had my family next, and then I had my business next, and then I had my physical fitness circle,” explained Ridley.
“And God told me one time, I’ll never forget it, the most amazing thing. ‘There’s only one circle, Dave. Only one circle.’ And this was 10 years ago or more, and I realized it’s all the same. It’s all the same.”
Ridley told Bock that he “learned not to silo those” things, but instead “to bring all those together.” He hopes to see others in the Church do likewise.
Ridley spoke of a model in which businessmen and pastors work together to form “a community where pastors become sensitive to the business person and the life that they lead, and…
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