The head of a prominent Christian financial ministry says the pandemic could be a blessing for many Americans who were stuck in the wrong job before they were laid off.
Chuck Bentley, the CEO of Crown Financial Ministries, said his organization has received phone calls from many individuals who had not saved enough and were not prepared for living without an income for multiple months.
“Of course, who could have been prepared for something of this magnitude and this duration? It’s affected all of us,” Bentley told Christian Headlines.
But the disruption to daily life could be a blessing for many families, he said.
“Sixty percent of Americans said before the pandemic that they were unhappy with their job,” Bentley told Christian Headlines. “And that’s usually because it’s not a good fit for their skills. Pray and ask the Lord to use this to lead you to a better fit with your skills and talents. Pray for God to use this as the most exciting time in your life, where you may find something that you never would have had you not lost the other job.”
Roughly 40 percent of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck prior to the pandemic, Bentley said.
“There’s been a lot of pain and there continues to be a lot of pain,” he said.
For the unemployed, Bentley recommends signing up for unemployment benefits, which he says are “the best they’ve ever been in history.” From…
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