completely. The original demand that each Christian should have a calling was boiled down to the demand that each citizen should have a job.” And then work itself was made sacred. President Calvin Coolidge declared: man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there “The worships there.” This is the danger of work as an idol. It becomes worship of us instead of God. Falling into that trap, we relate with the writer of Ecclesiastes when he says in chapter 2, a many may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, “For and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.” When we divorce work from worship, any meaning we feel in our work is illusory and sure to disappoint. Our Callings as Christians The main point here is that we need to keep work connected to worship, and worship connected to God. To understand this better, let me introduce the terminology of calling. We often talk about a particular in “calling” well, what does that mean? Vocation means—or originally meant—the same thing. It’s simply a transliteration of the Latin translation of call.” “to Our calling, our vocation, is what God has called us to do. Primary Calling
completely. The original demand that each Christian should have a calling was boiled down to the demand that each citizen should have a job.” And then work itself was made sacred. President Calvin Coolidge declared: “The man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there worships there.” This is the danger of work as an idol. It becomes worship of us instead of God. Falling into that trap, we relate with the writer of Ecclesiastes when he says in chapter 2, “For a many may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.” When we divorce work from worship, any meaning we feel in our work is illusory and sure to disappoint. Our Callings as Christians The main point here is that we need to keep work connected to worship, and worship connected to God. To understand this better, let me introduce the terminology of calling. We often talk about a particular “calling” in what does that mean? Vocation means—or originally meant—the same thing. It’s simply a transliteration of the Latin translation of “to call.” Our calling, our vocation, is what God has called us to do. Primary Calling well,
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