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The Bible has a great deal to say about each individual's right and responsibility to think and to choose and act. That said, if the value of individuals becomes individualism, there's bound to be trouble.
Do you think your work is more curse or calling? This study explores what the Bible says about the origins and outcomes of work for people made in the image of the Creator. And what about rest and recreation? Yeh, that's in here too.
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Dan Wooldridge notes that T.S. Eliot in his Choruses from The Rock though written in 1934 still peels back the veneer of modern business and work life to expose its emptiness.
Is church work more spiritual than any other work?
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Sitting in front of me was an old Indian coolie with gnarled, bare legs around which varicose veins entwined themselves like creepers on the branch of a tree. Those who know the Orient will be familiar with his type. As the preacher said the words "God is in your hands", [...]
Douglas Hyde
Dan Wooldridge is convinced that work is not merely the means to an end; good work is well worth doing for its own sake.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Bernard Moon wonders if religious professionals really mean to say they follow a higher calling than the rest of us...because sometimes that's what it sounds like.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Jim Hancock interviews Brett Johnson — an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson — on transforming businesses to accomplish more than bottom line profitability.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact in Silicon Valley.
Bradley J Moore realized he's spent the last 15 years so focused on his career and the next big advancement, the next promotion, the next ego-boost, that he forgot how to think about life in more foundational terms: fun; gratitude; relaxation; joy; knowing God.
A Roman Catholic order acquires a Pfizer biotech lab to develop cures for cancer and gains influence to push for more ethical practices in the pharmaceutical industry. Dan Wooldridge asks how we can push for positive change within our own industries.
I simply argue that the Cross be raised again at the center of the market–place as well as on the steeple of the church I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town garbage–heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek. [...]
George MacLeod
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We can commit ourselves without reserve to all the secular work our shared humanity requires of us, knowing that nothing we do in and of itself is good enough to form part of that city’s building, knowing that everything — from our most secret prayers to our most public [...]
Lesslie Newbigin
No Wonder We Don’t Understand the Meaning of Work!
Commentary on the marketing tone of a Christian publisher
Dan Wooldridge protests the idea that those who have the "proper" understanding of the meaning of work are in the Christian pulpits and publishing houses.
Reading an email from a friend, Allan Lunsford concludes that no one should have to lie when they answer the question, “How's it going?”
Joy, joy, joy!
When he stopped to pay attention, Bradley J Moore found he had been so focused on what he didn’t have, or what he thought he should have, that he was missing the opportunity to make the most of what was right in front of him.
Bradley J. Moore is feeling restive again. This time it's about a billboard seeking to entice Christians out of the marketplace and into the swirl of christiany ministry positions: "It disturbs me, this incessant need certain Christians have to insulate and protect themselves from the seemingly cruel, harsh, meaningless vapor of the evil secular marketplace..."
Glenn McMahan finds in the biblical narrative a great deal about the meaning behind God's labor — and clues to meaning of of human work as well.
Donald McGilchrist reflects on leadership, train schedules, product design, beer and moral purpose in business.
Bradley J. Moore reflects on spiritual disciplines, work, preachiness and humility in light of Bill Heatley's book, "The Gift of Work - Spiritual Disciplines for the Workplace."
In the divine economy, work is evaluated according to the way it fosters or retards relationships —— between ourselves and God, our companions and the earthly resources we are called to develop.
Gordon Preece
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The specific work to be done — whether it is making ax handles or tacos, selling automobiles or teaching kindergarten, investment banking or political office, evangelizing or running a Christian education program, performing in the arts or teaching English as a second language — is of central interest to God. [...]
Dallas Willard
Dan Wooldridge sees a lesson in William Wilberforce that counters the error that "ministry" is the realm of "spiritual" work. Wilberforce led a legendary career in politics.
When the guy with the Monty Python voice asked, "What is the purpose of your work?" the room full of ambitious, intelligent, hard-working folks fell strangely silent. In the stillness, Bradley J Moore wondered, "What IS the purpose of my work?"
Thinking about the value of work last week, I reflected on what I enjoy about working. The challenge and satisfaction of creating something...the process of brainstorming and generating ideas...the people I encounter and learn from.
A link to a great sermon by Nancy Ortberg entitled Jesus & Your Job. She covers the meaning of work and key leadership principles.
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Throughout the Bible, it is the person who works to whom most attention is given, rather than the form or conditions of his work...biblical writers emphasize the agent more than the act, the motive of the laborer more than the mode of his labor...the Bible is a book by workers, [...]
Paul S. Minear
From the spiritual point of view, work is a matter of being, of character, of what makes man man. It is not a matter of what society demands. Your identity, unless you work, is merely a theoretical identity, for you must manifest it, you must externalize it, lest the theory just collapse and you become a zero. [...]
Udo Middelman
Most middle-class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship. As a result, their meanings and values are distorted, their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them in repair, and their lifestyles resemble a cast of characters in search of a plot.
Gordon Dahl
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