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Friends and partners in love with the people of God, we must repent for treating others so much like fuel for our machines. We must confess that we have often looked over the weak, and made demands of the strong just so we could accomplish what we thought was the great thing. There is more to the kingdom of God than just delivering messages and conducting meetings.
Orphan Slave Son
Ben Pasley
In short, the kingdom is concerned with the stuff of sociology—with redeeming communities, institutions, and systems of human organization.
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
So we invert the purpose of work. Instead of working as a way to love and serve others, we turn work into a way to be loved and served by others. Instead of longing to hear the “Tov!” of God, we work for the “Tov!” of people. And this is only the beginning of our brokenness; sometimes we actively labor to hurt people. Not only is the world complex and hard to manage, but evil abounds. Whether it’s a competent bookkeeper working in the field of sex trafficking or an otherwise talented manager writing an email specifically intended to produce guilt and shame in an employee, often human work actively cultivates evil instead of love.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
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