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Every Good Endeavor

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Work as Service

Chapter 4
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Our daily work can be a calling

Only if it can be reconceived as God's assignment to serve others
P 66 all work is meant to cultivate culture and reflect God's creative nature. We are, through our work, to create order from chaos and reflect God's creative and orderly nature. our work is to do more than fulfill our own needs, but, instead, meet the needs of others. ( a contribution to the good of all and not merely a mean's to one' sown advancement....)
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If the point of work is to serve and exalt ourselves

then the work becomes less about work and more about us.
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Our aggressiveness will eventually become abuse

our drive will become burnout...

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and our self-sufficiency will become

self-loathing.
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But if the purpose of work is to serve and exalt

something beyond ourselves....

...then we actually have a better reason

to deploy our talent, ambition, and entrepreneurial vigor--

...and we are more likely to be successful in the long run

even by the world's definition.
P 68
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Competent work is a form of love

....it means that all jobs are fundamentally ways of loving your neighbor.
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"You can praise The Lord by peeling a spud,

if you peel it to perfection" Mr. Lindell, Chariots of Fire
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Your daily work is ultimately an act of worship

to the God who called and equipped you to do it...
P 80
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