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Approaching Work As A Calling
Brian Mashburn
September 25, 2016
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Approaching Work As A Calling
I was sitting with one of you at lunch this past week, and I had just begun answering the question, "So, what are you talking about this Sunday?" when our waitress (who I've built a little friendship with) came up and said, "You know, pastor, this morning I was praying, and I was just brought to tears for all these people I work with."
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Because so many of them are just lost. They don't know what is available to them because of Christ."
She turned to leave, and my buddy and I bowed to pray and she came back and said, "Can I just stand here and pray with ya'll?" And she did.
I looked up and my buddy and I said, "THAT is what I'm talking about."
The big idea of this series comes from the fact that, on the one hand, most people think of worship as something you do "at church." And on the other hand, people think of work as a chore you "must do" in order to earn a paycheck.
There is only partial truth in each of those beliefs. Maybe I'm setting my hopes too high, but my hope and prayer is that you will be changed this week. That you will see your work as worship. That you will see your work as a calling from God. That you will see the contribution you make to the functioning of society on God's behalf in what you do, and that you will see that the people you only know because of your work, as souls that God loved enough to send his son to die for... and you to work around.