Work matters: The christian understanding of labour
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2016-01-01
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PAC University journal of arts and social sciences
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Many Christians experience a dichotomy between their spiritual lives and their ordinary lives. On the one hand, they spend the majority of their hours at work from Monday to Friday, without understanding what God requires of them. On the other hand, they are told that what really counts is what they do on Sunday morning. Yet the Christian faith speaks of the in-breaking of God, through Jesus Christ, into the ordinary world. God, in Jesus, became incarnated in human flesh and bridged the divide between the Divine and the human. The Christian Scriptures have much to say about the spiritual nature of all our labour. Some people believe that the call to bring God’s life and justice to the world is restricted to the religious sphere and the rituals of the church. Others are convinced that work is actually a punishment from God. But this is not the Biblical view of work. The Bible, from its opening pages to its end, declares that all work is a good gift God has given us. Even before sin entered the world, God was at work and He assigned work to Adam and Eve. When we enter the heavenly realms, we will have work to do. In all our work, we are
asked to bring glory to God.
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work, work scriptures, Christian faith, christianity
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