26: Work as the Stuff of Salvation

Doing our work out of the motivation of service makes it meaningful in three different ways:

• Our work contributes to the common good.

• Our work images God in the world

• Our work is the stuff of salvation.

We're saved through faith, not by earning God's favor. But when we lean into what it means to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling" as "God . . . works in you," we see a lot of opportunity for effort—for work!—in our life with God. And that means our daily efforts at work can be caught up in the drama of salvation.

Sources: Philippians 2:12-13 (NIV)

John Van Sloten, Every Job a Parable: What Walmart Greeters, Nurses, and Astronauts Tell Us about God (Colorado Springs: Navpress, 2017).

Dallas Willard, "Following Jesus and Living in the Kingdom," interview by Andy Peck, Christianity + Renewal, May 2002, republished by Renovaré, May 2021.

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