Is God in Your Work?

Our latest book club book:

Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller and Katherine Leary Alsdorf

The book is pictured on the floor because that's where I read everything these days, while bunny sitting the Dodo bird.

I am very glad that Timothy Keller wrote a book about work; it is a huge part of our culture and a huge part of my life.  It's where I spend the majority of my time and it funds the fun things.  Plus - on a very personal note here - I appreciate reading a thoughtful Christian book about work that does not split it down traditional gender lines.  It is good for me to read a book about work that is not telling me to stay at home with the kids.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, but imagine if the majority of Christian (work-related) books talked about the importance of, say, international banking.  Hard to relate.  Hard to believe God relates to you.

In this book, work (or your present calling) is defined as what you do.  Stay home with the kids?  Check.  Wait tables to pay for school?  Check.  Keller, through much detailed Biblical reasoning, posits that the most effective way for us to love our neighbor is to do our work well (in a balanced way; he does not put work up on a pedestal).  He provides an overview of the creation of work, the role it was intended to play in our lives and in the world, the problems due to the fall, and the redemptive opportunities as we work toward (pun intended!) the new Heaven and the new Earth.

I want to write more, but I don't want to spoil the book.  :D

Suffice it to say this is a good book to read no matter what your present job is, or as he puts it, the patch of earth entrusted to you for this season.

Enjoy!