Gospel work vs. secular work?

2008-04-19T18:36:27+01:00

Only one person to ask :-p

I was just recounting today how I waited til the last year of uni before I realised I hadn’t actually asked God what he wanted me to do with my life and not just the next stage…

I don’t know if a division between secular and spiritual work is an advantageous one. Much (if not most of) the christian work done on a daily basis world wide is done by those working in secular jobs day and daily, the workplace remains the biggest mission field, the best way to meet and get to know people, the most accessible non-Christian audience and the most effective life shaping tool (if treated with wisdom!) that there is… in my opinion…

But then the fact that I am heading into “non-secular” work indicates that there is more to the choice than mere logic…

Hope you come to a conclusion!

Gospel work vs. secular work?

2008-04-20T09:20:15+01:00

Of course we ask him, but he doesn’t necessarily make it all clear! (Just enough, probably.)

I think perhaps my point still stands – does secular work have value in itself or merely as a means to reach more people? In this country, the majority of Christian work is done by those set apart for it, just because we have the resources. Elsewhere, you might work as a teacher/doctor/whatever because you can’t run the church/translate the Bible full time due to money, the government etc. You’re doing it not because it has value in itself, but because it’s a means to an end. My question is whether that’s the only value of secular work, or whether there’s more to it than that. Because if there isn’t, then sign me up for full-time Christian work straight away! If there is (as I suspect there is…) then how do we balance the importance of both “callings”, particularly when it comes to individual decisions, but also in general? We don’t want a situation where those in secular work feel they’re doing an inferior job, but is our stress on the “high calling” of full-time Christian workers doing just that? (Probably not, but I’ve met people who give me that impression.)

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