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Work As Connecting Conversation
Brian Mashburn
September 18, 2016
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Work And Worship
What does your work have to do with your worship?
Too often, and for too many, the answer is "nothing". Work stuff, after all, happens when we are "on the clock." Worship stuff is done outside of that, on our time. Perhaps we do some personal prayer or study before or after work. Maybe we participate in a ministry thing or two during the week. And, of course, we attend a church service on Sunday.
Why the disconnect?
Perhaps it is because we have been told an incomplete story. A story that fails to see work (of all kinds, not just full time ministry) as a vital and integrated part of the spiritual life. A calling. We'll talk about that next week.
Perhaps it is because we bought into the idea that work is just a "necessary thing" in order to get a paycheck, to provide for ourselves and our families, rather than a position of ministry. We'll talk about that in two weeks.
Perhaps it is because we are stuck thinking that our experience of work is fixed. That there is no way for me to change what I do, or change how I go about doing it, in order to redeem work into an act of worship. We'll talk about that in three weeks.
For today, I want to talk about how we talk about work with others. Why? Because the question, "What do you do?" is the most common and universal way that we begin building relationships with others.
And for a church that has decided to make it's Kingdom mark on the world through relationships, it's important.