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5 Ways to Honor Work in Church Services

Helpful article from the people at TGC about how to honour Monday to Friday on Sunday!

1. Preach about work from the pulpit.
2. Pray publicly for practitioners.
3. Sing songs that celebrate work.
4. Share testimonies about faith and work.
5. Commission congregants in their vocations.

Your Work Matters to God, But Does It Matter to the Church?

Gaye Clarke, a nurse, asks the tough question!? She concludes her article with this comment:

“What if the church came alongside the factory worker or teacher at a secular school and said, ?What can we do to help you offer your company a better product or help your students achieve better grades? In other words, how can we?the local church?help you make Christ?s blessings known far as the curse is found??

Read the full article here from the Gospel Coalition.

How to Discourage Artists in the Church

A helpful article in thinking about our attitudes towards those called to the vocation of the? arts.? While the focus of the article is on the place of the arts in the church gathered, there are implications for how we view the arts in the wider context of the church scattered.

Two very helpful quotes are included:

In my experience the Christian painter or poet, sculptor or dancer, is regularly regarded as something of a curiosity, to be tolerated, humoured even, maybe even allowed to put on a show once in a while. But the idea that they are, or could be, anything more than that?that they have a vocation to re-imagine and re-express the beauty of God, to lift our sights and change our vision of reality?is often not even considered. [N.T. Wright]

Whether through paint or sound, metaphor or movement, we are given the inestimable gift of participating in the re-creative work of the Triune God, anticipating that final and unimaginable re-creation of all matter, space, and time, the fulfillment of all things visible and invisible. [W. David O. Taylor]

 

 

Our children’s first glimpse of the value of work

Top article from the Gospel Coalition Faith and Work Channel exploring how the work of stay-at-home mothers demonstrates the creative and redemptive aspects of God’s work.? Stay-at-home mothers image God in what they do!:

“In the debates about who should stay home and why it matters, though, the value of stay-at-home work itself is often lost. But this?work points to a God who brings order out of chaos, who lays down his life for those he loves.”