Perhaps part of the problem is that we have never bothered to ask and answer the question—what is work?—from a biblical point of view. This is strange when we have so many workaholics in our culture, individuals who live to work, rather than work to live. Many economists would reduce the definition of work to the lowest common denominator—whatever we do to live or survive. The problem with this definition is not merely that it is too broad. (After all, running from an oncoming attacker or swerving