Politics, Media, Pandemic, Masks, Riots, Elections. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility We’ve Got Style-Community Group Style, That Is Harvest Alliance – Churches and Ministries Pursuing Revivalįor it is in giving that we receive. God’s Faithfulness Frees Us to Truly Love Register at įive Trends of Growing Churches by Carey Nieuwhof Come to the Redeeming Work Seminar this Saturday, June 8th at New Day Nichols to hear more! $15 - includes lunch. This is obviously a much bigger conversation. Perhaps you’ll see that God was there all along. Shed the residual guilt and do good work. It’s time to shed the residual guilt many of us carry around with us from day to day, that feels bad because we enjoy our work and don’t see how God’s connected to it, or that says "you should quit your day job and do something that really matters to God." However, God is inviting us into a wholly integrated Christianity that tears down this sacred / secular divide where we see Him not as the first of many items to check off on a list, but as the hub on the wheel that is our lives. Another, more insidious dimension of dualism is found when Christians only think of themselves as Christians within Church activities that their Christian life is what they do on Sundays and maybe a weeknight group, but the rest of the week is theirs, to do with as they wish, uncritically accepting and living into their culture's underlying values & idolatries of individualism (it's all about me), materialism (I matter because of what I own), and so on.
Here's why this is important: Often, Christians can fall into the dualism of thinking that their work only counts for God and pleases Christ if it is explicitly Christian, as if God was left delegated to a church gathering or confined to an ichthys symbol.
This is common grace - God's benevolent hand sustaining his creation whether we realize it or not. No, simply by doing good and honorable work, God loves people through you. And not just on the days when you pray without ceasing. Not just when your work is overtly Christian. Seen the other way around, one of the primary ways that God's love is expressed through you is through your work. Whether they realize it or not, through their work, however glorious or monotonous, God is loving you.
Instead, God created the raw materials, and people other than yourself took those raw materials and made something of them. The chair you sit in, the car you drive, the food you eat. Consider this: God's loving care for you comes to you largely through the labor of others. Podcast: Don’t Quit Your Day Job with Aliza Knox Podcast Business Leader and Bestselling Author Aliza Knox joins Wendy Appel and Mary Beth Sawicki of Trilogy Effect in this episode of the Being Human Is Good for Business podcast to discuss her new book Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The 6 Mindshifts You Need to Rise And Thrive At Work.
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