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Exodus 35:30-36:7--aboui Eezalel
I'm the worst craftsman iv the torld...
But the leeson today is about working oscplc
at of Jesus dealinps were 51th vow-king oeonlo
Life was hard: toi1 was endless
And the Biblehes a great deal to soy stout work
Adam-EVe story--work a turne;:--"in the sweat of thy hrovw thou ahalt
earn thy bread."
And that is still a common View
But it's not the dominant Biblical View
God is recresented as vorkin~
In the creation of th; world
As a potter shaping clay
A8 a shenherd
A9 a carnvntar
Work was vicve as road
8nrpriee--thie view was unioue among the ancients
The Pcrrians looked drhn or lahcr6r2-tradeevccpla
Thoy lovrd idlrncva :"A Book of Verses...
Greek and Roman rhilornrhrvr the some
Abhorred all but "liberal vcrk"
Aristotle: "It is, of couree, generally understand that in
a well oracrrd cteted, the citizen should have lriaure
and not hav; to orcvidc for his daily usedo."
Only gitizoqo--slavee. of courpc, vrrkcd.
Victorian Enrland--no FGDtIGMIn sould work
Christianity develooed diffrrcntly
From Middle A,e9 thru Prctcptnnt Revolution--live of vcrk is good
Chaucer: "Hsav¢n is not fiVPn to idle folk...
Again: Idlenecs it "the catetc all ovil"
Today: "An idle wind is the devilc workahoh.
This is the Christian othic
.mritan, Quaker, pioneer
Still the dominant notion
Idlenoas crsates a avor of ruilt
A real nrobler for rttirree
1962 Gallup Poll-~6h aid can't reduce vork week
$25 of labor union members laid some thing
Psychologicely. morally, rmoticnollv--w9 arenot nreoarcd for lcisure
But it is here
Someone hp: succsrted we divide 1mt into two "arts:
Sold time: to survive, to he secure--for a rice
Free time--witrout nrice
corners "givon"
to wif9--to Rotary~-to Church--tc aelf improvrment
nan has two great needq:
to bo--survian
To be somebody--¢rre time
If so, use of time depends upon noel: of valuea
You car look at what a man does with his free time, and know hip
soalp of valucs
That's were the Church comes in--and Christ
What do you want to do with your 11:92
Early American had little nrchlcm--Aftrr Church, out no team, fed
the stock, eat dirner--time for bed
Don't play cords. don't canon. don't go to theetrc--rp~t
Today the vital diffrrsncc in people: what do they do with leisure
Is it an xtcnsion of Saturday night?
In it a continual round r cocktail hertiee?
Or deer be work in thr Church--on United Fund drivPe--cn de-
veIOndent of creativntalenta
Gallun says 8 of 10 persons choose entertainment over education
2/} of all adults have not read a book in a year-~a11 the way thru
Cnly 1 in 6 aduite knows a recent book he would like to read
!h the dav of the 40-hour week--the 35-hour wesk-our naticnal destiny,
and our individual destiny, epends on what we do, not with our
work time,but with cur free time.
Remember the took: You are what zgu 95}
Could be: You are what you 2 a!
You live In your free time according to your scale or values
The Bible has a rreat deal to say about ripht values
"Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things
shall he vour as well.
"'ratsoever is trus--honorat1e--Just--pure-lovely--grac1ous--if
there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise,
think about these things.
"Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
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