Sometimes we strain at the gnat and gulp down the camel.
We all do it or have done it. I am no exception.
Why can't we just stop bickering and focus on obeying God?
Are we like the unruly masses in the wilderness that had come out of Egypt complaining so much that they could not hear to obey?
God is not one to be mocked. Whatever a man sows that man will reap. You know, Galatians chapter 6.
It is very apparent you are going to have works of some kind, is it not?
If you do not listen to God whose works will those be?
Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
When Paul ceased to covet because he listened to the law of God (which is God's word) whose work was he doing?
If you leave the commandment of God out of your business practices whose works would those be?
Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
You do lots of work everyday.
All God is asking is that you do that work with his commandments in mind so that you hurt no one with your works.
And he also has special work that he needs done through you so that he can reach the many and save all who will listen.
The only problem as I see it is that some (or maybe more truthfully, many) preach to others zealously thinking it will save them while they leave the commandment of God out of their ordinary everyday works of life.
Why turn this into a complicated thing when it is not?