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Most Christians spend most of their waking hours working, yet many regard work as at best a necessary evil—just one more unfortunate by-product of humanity’s fall from grace. Not so, says Ben Witherington, and in Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor, he considers work as neither the curse nor the cure of human life but, rather, as something good that God has given us to do. In this brief primer...

them make risky investments is not. Being a used car salesman can be a ministry; selling people things they do not need and that will not help them is not Christian work. By now you will have caught the drift of this discussion. Before we engage in any sort of work, we have to ask whether it will glorify God and edify other persons, whether it can be an expression of love of God and love of neighbor. If the answer is no, we shouldn’t be doing it. Work is not a secular activity; it is a sacred one
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