Work is the largest time commitment in the average adult lifespan,
an even bigger slice of life than sleep for at least a forty-year stretch.
A recent Gallup Poll found out that 77% of full time workers said they
mildly disliked to intensely hated their job. 77%! Yet the average work
week is expanding towards 50 hours per week.
The Bible = work: 800 times, more than worship, praise, prayer combined.
Laura Nash, senior research fellow at Harvard Business School:
“Many Christian businesspeople experience a radical disconnection
between Sunday services and their Monday morning activities, describing
a sense of living in two worlds that never touch each other.”
• Our primary vocation = TO BE God’s image bearer.
• Our secondary vocation = TO DO our work as a steward of creation.
Jesus is LORD. Jesus didn’t create secular and sacred spaces.
He invaded our most ordinary spaces to reclaim them for God.
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it ALL in the name
of the LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the LORD,
not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance
from the LORD as a reward. It is the LORD Christ you are serving!
Colossians 3:23-24
“In the beginning, God created…” God is a Worker. A Creator.
