'Does My Career Matter to God?' - Andy Crouch

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For Christians, everything matters, because we believe that God is at work in our world . . . and in my life. So I can't separate off one part of my life and say, "Well, that is just a means to an end; I just collect a pay check there. Maybe my family really matters, but my work doesn't matter." No . . . my family does matter, my church does matter, my volunteering does matter, and my work matters. And I also can't compartmentalize and say only my work is where I'm really serving God, and then when I go home I can sort of not think about my vocation. I'm called to probably several different spheres of life in any given time in my life, and all of it has to be brought to God. We have to ask, "What am I making of the world here? Am I contributing to flourishing in what I'm doing with whatever level of choice and freedom I have? And am I finding ways to bear witness, not always explicitly, but clearly bear witness that there is a Lord of this world, and He has a name?" So every sphere of our life matters for that . . . very much including the work we do.