1. The Dignity of Work – Part 2 2 Thessalonians 4:10-12

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3. THE CAUSE OF WORK To Honor the Lord
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.” - Col 3:23-24

4. THE CAUSE OF WORK
To Honor the Lord
To Benefit Others in Love

5. THE CAUSE OF WORK
“We urge you to excel still more [in love] and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you, so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.” Thessalonians 4:10b-12

6. THE CAUSE OF WORK
“Imagine that everyone quits working, right now! What happens? Civilized life quickly melts away. Food vanishes from the shelves, gas dries up at the pumps, streets are no longer patrolled, and fires burn themselves out. Communication & transportation services end, utilities go dead. Those who survive at all are soon huddled around campfires, sleeping in caves, clothed in raw animal hides. The difference between [a wilderness] and culture is simply, work!” - Lester DeKoster

7. THE CHOICE OF WORK
… Gone Bad

8. THE CHOICE OF WORK
“The essential [modern] heresy … being that work is not the expression of man’s creative energy in the service of Society, but only something one does in order to obtain money and leisure … Doctors practice medicine not primarily to relieve suffering, but to make a living – the cure of the patient is something that happens on the way.” - Dorothy Sayers

9. Don’t Chase a Job Just For a Paycheck!!
THE CHOICE OF WORK
… Gone Bad
Don’t Chase a Job Just For a Paycheck!!

10. THE CHOICE OF WORK
“Many modern people seek a kind of salvation – self-esteem and self-worth – from career success. This leads us to seek only high-paying, high-status jobs, and to “worship” them in perverse ways. But the gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves and secure our identity through work, for we are already …

11. THE CHOICE OF WORK
“… proven and secure. It also frees us from a condescending attitude toward less sophisticated labor and from envy over more exalted work. All work now becomes a way to love the God who saved us freely; and by extension, a way to love our neighbor.” – Tim Keller

12. THE CHOICE OF WORK … Gone Bad Don’t Chase a Job Just For a Paycheck!!
Don’t Chase a Job Just to Prove Your Worth!!

13. THE CHOICE OF WORK
… Gone Bad
… Gone Right

14. THE CHOICE OF WORK
“How, with my existing abilities and opportunities, can I be of greatest service to other people, knowing what I do of God’s will and of human need?” Tim Keller

15. THE CHOICE OF WORK
“To believe that a wise and good God is in charge of things implies that there is a fit between things that need doing and the person I am meant to be … God [leads] you to the kind of work that you need most to do, and that the world most needs to have done .. the place God [leads] you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” – Frederick Buechner

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17. THE COMPETENCE OF WORK
“If the call of the Christian is to participate in God’s ongoing creative process, the bedrock of our ministry has to be competency. We must use our talents in as competent a manner as possible.” – Diehl