Title: Who's Your Boss? (2)
Series: Ephesians 6
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 6:5-9
Two landscapers were working diligently alongside the streets of a large office complex. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked one side of the street, then down the other, then they moved on the next street.
The two of them worked hard all day, one guy digging a hole and the other guy filling it in again.
An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but he just couldn't understand what they were doing. So, he asked the guy who was digging the holes, "I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting into your work, but I don't get it - why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"
The man wiped his brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-man team.
But today the guy who plants the trees called in sick."
Sometimes that is the way we feel about our job, we are not really accomplishing anything. We wonder why we are working at all.
We do the same thing over and over again but with little or no results so it seems like our work is useless.
Martin Luther had a different view of work, he saw it as another form of worship to God. He wasn't thinking about preaching, evangelizing or serving in some other full-time ministry. He said,
"The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays - not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God likes to see clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting crosses on the shoes he makes but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship."
When Jesus redeems our lives, he wants to change every aspect of our life which includes not only our home, but also our work.
REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKERS :5-8
Respect for boss :5
Slaves - Gk. fro ...
Series: Ephesians 6
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 6:5-9
Two landscapers were working diligently alongside the streets of a large office complex. One would dig a hole and the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in. They worked one side of the street, then down the other, then they moved on the next street.
The two of them worked hard all day, one guy digging a hole and the other guy filling it in again.
An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but he just couldn't understand what they were doing. So, he asked the guy who was digging the holes, "I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting into your work, but I don't get it - why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"
The man wiped his brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-man team.
But today the guy who plants the trees called in sick."
Sometimes that is the way we feel about our job, we are not really accomplishing anything. We wonder why we are working at all.
We do the same thing over and over again but with little or no results so it seems like our work is useless.
Martin Luther had a different view of work, he saw it as another form of worship to God. He wasn't thinking about preaching, evangelizing or serving in some other full-time ministry. He said,
"The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays - not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God likes to see clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting crosses on the shoes he makes but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship."
When Jesus redeems our lives, he wants to change every aspect of our life which includes not only our home, but also our work.
REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKERS :5-8
Respect for boss :5
Slaves - Gk. fro ...
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