Rabbi Stuart Shiff makes office calls for New York executives who are too busy to attend the formal study of their faith. He says, "I will come to you before your day starts. Before the market opens I will be at your office. "
Psychologist, Michael Silverman, attentively listens as Rabbi Shiff shares what he refers to as practical teaching. "Moses and Aaron procures the release of the Jewish people." He insist, "the two were not placating to pharoah but helping the Hebrews to move out of a lifestyle they had become accustomed to for over a two hundred year period.
By the end of the session one of several points were clear to Michael, "you can create opportunities by making a change, and you make a change by taking risk."
Shiffs story is reminiscent of the apostles in Acts when the newly formed Christian group met in houses to study the teachings of Jesus. Shiff has expanded the meeting places to your office, your library, or the Starbucks on your corner. In the conference rooms of Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, and other major financial firms Shiffs includes metaphors: in prison in Eygpt, Joseph mistakenly puts "all his trust in his network," but he later becomes "Like the vice-president" of a company.
Making the bible culturally relative opens the floodgates for Christian to invade the workplace in the twent-first century. This designated sace is no longer limited to a place or time but exists in your home, your nearest wifi connection, or the starbucks on your corner. There is no better time then the present to deliver the word.
