Labor and Leisure: Work and Worship
LABOR AND LEISURE: WORK AND WORSHIP Most middle-class Americans tend to: worship their work; work at their play; and play at their worship. That which we worship, we serve, and that which we serve we will give our all --heart, soul, mind and body. --Gordon Dahl, in WORK, PLAY, AND WORSHIP IN A LEISURE-ORIENTED SOCIETY, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1972. ISBN: 0806612339 Quoted by Chuck Swindoll in STRESS FRACTURES (Zondervan, 1995, ISBN-13: 978-0310497417) and at www.oneplace.com/ministries/insight_for_living/Article.asp?article_id=539. Quoted by Ken Boa, “Process Spirituality: Being Versus Doing” in CONFORMED TO HIS IMAGE: BIBLICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO SPIRITUAL FORMATION (Zondervan 2001, ISBN-13: 9780310238485) [I wonder where the author got the idea of giving "heart, soul, mind, and body"? (Mark 12:29-31). Gordon Dahl wrote this critique of American work and worship more than thirty-six years ago (1972). I wonder what he would say in September of 2008?] Have a great week, Chip Stam Director, Institute for Christian Worship School of Church Music and Worship The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky www.wqotw.org www.sbts.edu/icw =========================== WORSHIP QUOTE OF THE WEEK: To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view a complete index of worship quotes, please visit http://www.wqotw.org. =========================== |