When We Work We Eat
The U.N. is predicting that because of COVID-19 and the global lockdown, there could be 265 million people starving by the end of the year. This news is truly devastating, overwhelming. It is another crushing blow to an already distressing 2020.
AND YET, it should not surprise us. A world on "lockdown" can't work. If we don't work, we don't eat.
Our visions of work and business are anemic
Increasingly, Christians have come to hope, and perhaps even expect, there is more to the idea of Kingdom impact through business. The faith at work conversation has made much progress in the past decade to remind us of the theological importance of our day-to-day work. Through the efforts of countless authors, parachurch ministries, and pastors, we've been taught that work provides an opportunity for living the gospel and witnessing to our neighbors….