{"id":414,"date":"2019-02-05T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T19:19:12","slug":"making-good-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Making Good Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">[To follow <strong><em>The Ewellogy<\/em><\/strong>, please click on <strong><em>Leave a Comment<\/em><\/strong> above, fill in your name and email, and check the box: <strong><em>Notify me of new posts by email<\/em><\/strong>. If your comment is, &#8220;Notify me,&#8221; it won&#8217;t post publicly. If you don&#8217;t start to receive the blog by email right away, please write to me at bob@ewell.com, and I will see that you get on the list.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like the fact that the &#8220;Framework for Fruitfulness&#8221; (see yesterday&#8217;s blog) in Mark Green&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vereinstitute.org\/resources\">Fruitfulness on the Frontline<\/a> lists <em><strong>Making Good Work<\/strong><\/em> high on the list. Churches tend not to talk about regular work all that much, which, interestingly, is different from the Bible&#8217;s emphasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The first picture we have of God is that he is a worker (Genesis 1 and 2)<\/li><li>Many of God\u2019s key people worked at \u201csecular\u201d jobs: <ul><li>Joseph (Genesis 37 &#8211; 50) and Daniel (Daniel 1 &#8211; 6) were Prime Ministers. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Moses (Exodus and Numbers) was a liberator and led the people through the wilderness. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Joshua was a general. (Joshua) <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>David, who wrote about half the Psalms, was also a military man and a king. <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Lydia, who hosted a church in her home, was a merchant. (Acts 16) <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Many events in the Bible occurred in the context of work: <ul><li>God appeared to Moses while he was tending sheep (Exodus 3). <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The angel appeared to Gideon while he was threshing wheat (Judges 6). <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The shepherds in Luke 2 were at work when the angels appeared to them, and after seeing the baby Jesus, they returned to work. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=417\">Tomorrow<\/a> we&#8217;ll look in more detail at our own work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The  LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. (Genesis 2.15) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Six days you shall labor and do all your work. (Exodus 20.9)<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the fact that the &#8220;Framework for Fruitfulness&#8221; (see yesterday&#8217;s blog) in Mark Green&#8217;s Fruitfulness on the Frontline lists Making Good Work high on the list. Churches tend not to talk about regular work all that much, which, interestingly, is different from the Bible&#8217;s emphasis. The first picture we have of God is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Good Work<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-6G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}