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A solid book connecting a much deeper meaning to your vocation.
I felt a few points were a bit of a stretch.
Overall it provides a spiritual purpose behind jobs, careers, and callings.

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I recently finished college and started working as an accountant. I want to get back into reading. I used to read a lot when I was younger. This book was recommended by my coworker. I'm on page 35. I agree with the message. All work is equal and we must work. One kind of work isn't better than another. Enjoying it.

Dang it, guys and gals.

I REALLY wanted to love this book.
Its the second of TK‘s works that I‘ve chosen to dig into by direction of my church and spiritual leaders.
I expected my knowledge & views flipped upside down. I wanted to glean such a new perspective of work from this book, but my final analysis is, “Meh.” ??‍♀️

The most significant downfall for me was that it felt "too academic" with a whopping 52 pages of reference notes at end.

Churches need to embrace the whole person—the married or single person, the healthy or ill person, the person at work and the person at home.

Your gifts have not emerged by accident, but because the Creator gave them to you.

You are adopted into God‘s family, so you already have your affirmation. You are justified in God‘s sight, so you have nothing to prove. You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one. You are loved ceaselessly, so you can work tirelessly in response to a quiet inner fullness.

We all work for an audience.

God gives out gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty and skill according to his grace—that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across the human race like a seed, in order to enrich, brighten and preserve the world.

The gospel helps us see everything in a new light.
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There is no one class or group of people responsible for the world‘s situation; we are all responsible. Each of us is capable of the worst kind of evil, and there is nothing we can do to change ourselves, or even see ourselves in our true light, without God‘s help.

Human beings are capable of kindness and unselfishness but also of cruelty and violence, and science will simply serve the interests of whoever is in power.

But if you are unwilling to risk your place in the palace for your neighbors, the palace owns you.

But if you do your work so well that by God's grace it helps others who can never thank you, or it helps those who come after you to do better, then you know you are “serving the work“, and truly loving your neighbor.

Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God‘s assignment to serve others.

Just as God equips Christians for building up the Body of Christ, so he also equips all people with talents and gifts for various kinds of work, for the purpose of building up the human community.

What‘s more, God has not left us alone to discover how or why we are to cultivate his creation; instead, He gives us a clear purpose for our work and faithfully calls us into it.

A biblical understanding of work energizes our desire to create value from the resources available to us. Recognizing the God who supplies our resources, and who gives us the privilege of joining in as cocultivators, helps us enter into our work with a relentless spirit of creativity.

And that is the pattern for all work. It is creative and assertive. It is rearranging the raw material of God‘s creation in such a way that helps the world in general, and people in particular, thrive and flourish.

Instead, “ruling” the world as God‘s image bearers should be seen as stewardship or trusteeship. God owns the world, but He has put it under our care to cultivate it. It is definitely not a mandate to treat and its resources as if they are ours to use, exploit, and discard as we wish.

And every Christian should be able to identify, with conviction and satisfaction, the ways in which his or her work participates with God in his creativity and cultivation.

We are called to stand in for God here in the world, exercising stewardship over the rest of creation in his place as his vice-regents. We share in doing the things that God has done in creation—bringing order out of chaos, creatively building a civilization out of the material of physical and human nature, caring for all that God has made. This is a major part of what we were created to be.

There is a God, there is a future healed world that he will bring about, and your work is showing it (in part) to others.

Pastor referenced this read in the sermon today, it‘s been sitting in my TBR stack for a hot minute, and I have a new Audible credit coming tomorrow.....
I think this may be a “God thing” coming together here and I should move it up in the stack and start moving through it over the next four weeks of this sermon series.

I really tried to take my time going through this book. The chapters are dense and I did not want to miss anything. I am sure that I did though. I will probable read this book again in a few years. It is one that you can continue to go back to and glean new information and meaning each time. I highly recommend this book!

I had to chuckle at what stuck out to my carpenter hubby when he read this book. #readtogether #ministryofcompetence #wewriteinbooks