Before All Things

Good News at Work - Q&A - Part A


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Alan and Jireh sit down to answer the mass of questions left from the Good News at Work Q&A. You can still ask questions using the #workq code in Slido.

Qs answered:

  • I’m an engineer who wants to empathise with others. Should I quit, or am I doomed for life?
  • How do we rightly orient our work towards God without letting it define us (e.g. falling into the trap of chasing progress at work to “serve God”)?
  • How much should "job satisfaction" play a role in our work? Where does it fit in with how work should be an expression of our relationship with God?
  • 'All work is good' - does that include sex workers seeing disabled clients or illegal drug dealers providing cannabis to cancer patients'?
  • Work is good - but what if you cannot work? eg. due to illness or other life circumstances. How should we treat people who want to work but cannot?
  • In terms of valuable work, how can we compare doing full-time ministry and something that is more 'secular'? Are some works more valuable than others?
  • Is good news work separated from work that you do because of the good news?
  • If the gospel is good news… How can we see the effect of what being reconciled to God looks like e.g. developing medicine to treat someone’s illness?
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