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 So in the comments of yesterday’s post, Miller brought up the fact that folks have been complaining about their jobs for centuries, evidence of which is the �ber-popular Johnny Paycheck song, “Take This Job and Shove It.” (side note: I didn’t realize that David Allen Coe actually wrote and recorded the song first, but Paycheck’s cover was more memorable)
The Christian approaches the subject of work a little differently than Paycheck or Coe, however, even though their approach is quite hilarious. For the Christian, every subject becomes a theological one. We seek to discover — together, if possible — how our faith in and participation with a God who is establishing a “new reality” here on Earth informs every aspect of our life, not least our “work lives.” “Work life.” Hmmmm. Therein lies one of the fundamental problems, I fear. Our language reveals a lot, no? We live divided, dualistic lives. We have our “work life.” We have our “church life.” We have our “home life.” Just Google “work-life balance” sometime and inventory the results … We’ll get to the rest of the extremely thoughtful questions regarding a theology of work before too long, but let’s begin with the “work-life” question: Does our parsing of “work” from the rest of our lives (spiritual, family, mission, social…) affect the way we view it, especially from a spiritual perspective?� If so, how?� If this is a bad thing, how do we stop doing it?
Original content at: http://harvestboston.net/20070821/moving-beyond-johnny-paycheck-part-2/.
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