Working With Your Hands - The Theology of Work

Old Fashion Dad Podcast

This week we talk about the value of working with your hands, teaching your kids how to work, God's calling to work and work well. We even discuss about how perhaps God doesn't care about the work you do nearly as much as how you do your work.

NOTES:

• This Weeks Whiskey:
• • High West Double Rye Whiskey
  • Willet Distillery Whiskey from Bardstown, KY (not drinking it tonight but recommended)
• This Weeks Cigars:
• • Thompson Cigar house Churchill
• Show Notes:
• • Christian B. makes an exciting surprise 1st purchase... a couple fire arms / guns.
  • Christian H. buys his own AR-15 rifle.
  • The value of working with your hands / manual labor.
  • Before becoming a real estate broker, Christian H. was a finish carpenter and did high-end home remodeling professionally for 15 years.
  • Christian B. is pretty handy around the house and got a lot of his experience while working with his dad restoring classic American Muscle cars ('78 Chevy Corvette & '66 coupe Mustang).
  • Christian H. talks restoring his '71 Datson 240Z.
  • Learning how things work through working with your hands.
  • The value of shared experience and bonding with your kids and other men through mechanic or construction projects and work. Don't just do things for your kids, do the work with your kids and teach them in the process.
  • Man's main purpose given to Adam in the garden of Eden (and man-kind in general), is to work and cultivate the earth - build culture.
  • Great book on the Theology of Work:
  • • Every Great Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work by Tim Keller
  • God doesn't care nearly as much about WHAT for your work... He cares more about HOW you work. The quality and exceptionalism of the work we do is what really matters ("Everything you do, do it to the glory of God")
  • Often a large part of our identity is attached to our work that we do - We size people up based on what they do compared to what they do (manual labor jobs vs. jobs requiring degrees or "thinking").
  • An unspoken value and goal in our culture is to try to avoid work or work so you can measure and retire someday, which is not something we see in God's word (trying to avoid work).
  • Hard work and doing a good job brings glory to God. Your kids will pickup on your attitude towards work and if you hate it or are doing your best job.
  • In some Christian sub-cultures, being a pastor or in paid ministry is the highest calling but we don't find that in scripture - It's not the job you do that glorify's God, it's how you do that job.
  • It's every Christian's ministry to do the work the best you can and to love people God brings you in contact with through your work - We are all ministers of the gospel in how we work and how we treat people.
  • Jesus was a carpenter and many of his disciples where rugged fisherman... They were blue-collar workers.

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