A Whole & Holy Life | Get(ting) Out of Work
About this episode
The episode explores the spiritual significance of work and how it can be a medium for offering oneself to God, emphasizing ancient practices and the importance of habits.
What if work was never the thing to survive on the way to your real life — but the very medium through which you offer yourself to God? In the finale of our "Get(ing) Out of Work" series we consider a few of the ancient, yet ever new, practices that the church has used to help God's people stay in step with the Spirit during the daily rhythms of work and rest, rest and work. Drawing on Irenaeus and Hans Urs von Balthasar, the message recovers an old picture of the human being: not merely shaped clay, body and soul, but body and soul and spirit together — the complete person, bearing not just the image but the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26). To be spiritual is "by definition to be moved by the Spirit of the Logos," Christ our Beginning, our Salvation, our End. This reframes work entirely. With Dorothy Sayers, work is "not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do… the medium in which one offers oneself to God." We do not offer our work to God; following Paul in Romans 12, we offer our whole selves — as a living sacrifice — through it. So we stop striving to get out of work the identity, prosperity, and purpose it was never…
Topics covered
- work
- spirituality
- Christian practices
- identity
- habits
- rest
Keywords
- work
- spirituality
- identity
- habits
- Christianity
- rest
- sacrifice
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