Faith Work, and Worship: The Strategic and Overlooked Role of Local Congregations
Session Description
Resources and initiatives to help Christians connect their faith with their work continue to proliferate in North America. However, what is often lacking in these discussions is a focus on local congregations and their role in engaging in this vital aspect of discipleship. This involves making connections between Sunday worship and weekday life in the world much more vivid through adapting worship practices, providing resources for daily devotional life, and challenging the frameworks for connecting worship and life that currently exist in our ministries. These connections mean quite different things for people in different stages of life and in different cultural and geographic contexts. How can we strengthen the connections between liturgy and faith and faith and work for young professionals, the unemployed, homemakers, and those approaching retirement? What intentional changes do churches need to make to form disciples equipped to pursue their daily work in light of their faith?
Faith Work, and Worship: The Strategic and Overlooked Role of Local Congregations
Resources and initiatives to help Christians connect their faith with their work continue to proliferate in North America. However, what is often lacking in these discussions is a focus on local congregations and their role in engaging in this vital aspect of discipleship. This involves making connections between Sunday worship and weekday life in the world much more vivid through adapting worship practices, providing resources for daily devotional life, and challenging the frameworks for connecting worship and life that currently exist in our ministries. These connections mean quite different things for people in different stages of life and in different cultural and geographic contexts. How can we strengthen the connections between liturgy and faith and faith and work for young professionals, the unemployed, homemakers, and those approaching retirement? What intentional changes do churches need to make to form disciples equipped to pursue their daily work in light of their faith?