Nobody comes to NY to get a life, they come to work.
If you want more you need to leave. - as told to Tim Keller.
Notes from the sermon (see previous post)
Keller lays the argument that -
- if one doesn't rest, one doesn't have the have the right Biblical view of work.
- all work is good
- no matter how high and lofty your work is today, your ancestor was a grounds keeper or a maid
He reminds us, from Genesis -
- that God got his hands dirty (He made us from the dirt)
- that God planted the garden
- and He put us in the garden to tend it
- that the author is going out of his way to tell us
- how good work is
- that work is PUT in the paradise
Keller says "The only person, deep thinker, I (Keller speaking) know to have this high a view of work is Karl Marx. Marx held up the common worker. But Marxism is deeply discredited today because Marx didn't ground his view of work in a God who loves to get his hands dirty. He didn't ground his high view of work in the love of God whose Son came, not as the Greek expected him to come as a philosopher, or as the Romans expected as a noble statesman, or as the Jews wanted him to come as a great general.....but He came as a carpenter.
Marx grounded his high view of work in atheism and therefore if there is no God everything is permitted. If everything is just evolution, what's wrong with depression? There's nothing wrong with depressing the workers.
So, where is the source of social healing in the world?"
Good ponderings.
To that end...............
