Work: The Meaning of Your Life: A Christian Perspective

by Lester DeKoster

Publisher:

Christian’s Library Press

, 2010

Overview

Where do we find the core of life’s meaning? Right on the job! At whatever work we do—with head or hand, from kitchen to executive suite, from your house to the White House! “Work is the great equalizer—everyone has to come to it in order to find meaning in living: no short cuts, no detours, no bargain rates.”

Lester DeKoster saw work as a manifestation of whole-life discipleship. Work: The Meaning of Your Life discusses essential insights in DeKoster’s belief that work gives life meaning.

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Key Features

• Answers the question “Does work give meaning to life?”
• Discusses why work gives life meaning
• Includes an excerpt of The Oikonomia Network’s “Whatever You Do”

Contents

• What Is Work?
• Word on Work
• Word on Self
• Walking Wounded
• Word on Wound
• Worker on Wound
• Giving to Receive
• The End of the Matter

Top Highlights

“It is your daily work, whatever your job, that does give meaning to your life, not because you will now decide to put meaning there but because God has already done so.” (Page xiv)

“The first insight is that work, indeed, gives meaning to life because it is the form in which we make ourselves useful to others, and thus to God.” (Page x)

“Work is the form in which we make ourselves useful to others.” (Page 1)

“work as a manifestation of whole-life discipleship” (Page ix)

“ you are one of those who is happy on the job, rejoice in it! But keep your heart open to others not so blessed” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Work: The Meaning of Your Life: A Christian Perspective
• Author: Lester DeKoster
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher: Christian’s Library Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 94

About Lester DeKoster

Lester DeKoster (1916–2009) was the director of Libraries and a professor of speech at Calvin College. He earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1964, after completing a dissertation on “Living Themes in the Thought of John Calvin: A Bibliographical Study.” After his retirement from Calvin College in 1969, DeKoster labored for a decade as the editor of The Banner, a weekly news magazine of the Christian Reformed Church. During this time DeKoster also launched, in collaboration with Gerard Berghoef and their families, the Christian’s Library Press, a publishing endeavor intended to provide timely resources both for the church’s laity and its leadership.