Faith & Work Sunday
For Meditation
This Sunday is our annual “Faith and Work” Sunday, a tradition we keep every Labor Day weekend. As summer vacations end and we return to our normal schedules of work and school, it’s a great time to reflect on how our everyday work connects with our faith in Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, this is not a very self-evident truth. Historically, the church has spent a lot of time equipping the saints for the private, spiritual dimensions of their lives (prayer, spirituality, etc.) but not much time equipping them for the public, vocational aspects of their lives. This often results in a deep split, what some have called a “sacred/secular divide,” between Sunday and the rest of the week, between our spiritual lives and what we spend most of our time doing every day. It’s vital we recover a biblical understanding of work and how central it is to our discipleship.
This Sunday we'll be interviewing two of our covenant partners about how they seek to integrate their faith with their everyday labor. Steve Krieger works at Capital One, and Adrienne Wright is President and CEO of U-Turn. They both have great things to share about the challenges and opportunities they experience every day as they follow Jesus in their workplaces.
This Sunday is also a communion Sunday, when we receive the gifts of the Lord’s grace at the table together. What a gift to be able to begin a new season of work meeting the risen Christ in his gifts of grace! Take some time in prayer to prepare to meet Christ at the table.
Matthew 26:26-30
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.