Here is a fictional conversation between two guys who go to church together.
Norm: George, you and I have been attending church together for a couple of years, and I’ve never found out what you do.
George: Well, Norm, I guess you’d say that my work in life is to be an evangelist. I want to tell people about Jesus Christ.
N: Oh, I didn’t know you were in religious work. Somehow or other, I thought you worked for some company in the city.
G: Oh yeah, I do work for Marconi and Sons. They hired me to be a salesman. That’s what I do to make a living. But my real job is to talk to everybody in my industry about Jesus. You might say that I work to exist, but I live to evangelize.
N: Boy, I admire your commitment. I don’t think I’ve ever thought of work that way.
G: I think that’s what every Christian should be about. I want to give myself to what is eternal. Marconi and Sons are in the wholesale food business. I don’t want to give my life to selling fish or cakes or milk or cheese. I want to give my life to what lasts. Christ is what really matters. Your job isn’t important. It’s whether or not on your job you tell people about Jesus.
N: So you see yourself as some kind of missionary. Is that it?
G: Yes, Jesus said go into the all the world and preach the gospel. My world is the wholesale food business. It’s my mission field. Why give yourself to something that really doesn’t last much longer than fish?
There was a time when I would have said that George was really spiritual and that we all should have the same approach to life and work as he does. Now, I think that George has a limited understanding of the gospel and almost no understanding of the purpose of work.
What do you think?
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