WHERE'S GOD ON MONDAY?

by Alistair Mackenzie

We spend most of our lives at work--teaching, cleaning, filing, building, and managing. Yet often Christians feel as if our "nine to five" employment possesses little relevance to their Sunday morning rituals. Nothing should be further from the truth. The everyday work of a Christian is our opportunity to serve and worship the Creator. With the proper perspective, work can be seen as a blessing from God. In Where's God on Monday? the authors challenge their readers to reconnect the fragments of their "work" and "church" lives to uncover one life, sacred and productive.

Genres: Theology, Christian

Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Amy Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

My friend Luke recommended this book as he said it helped him to look for God in things that were more everyday as opposed to supernatural. It talks about God's ongoing creative, transformative and sustaining work and his work of restraining evil and relates this back to how our tasks (not limited to paid work) our our acts of cooperation with him.

The best chapter is called 'Confessions of a Car Dealer' and talks about how one of the authors went from full time ministry into selling used cars because his organisation was running low on money. He talks about how overcame his environmentally conscious/anti-consumerism aversion to cars and came to see his business as necessary work which served others, offered him an opportunity to work against unethical practices in the industry, develop relationships and develop his gifts.

Reading this book has helped to redeem my view of house work and yard work, and re-evaluate my attitude to some of the most boring, repetitive or not financially profitable aspects of optometry. One of the prayers from the book that I have been praying is that I will be more attentive to the people I am working with and to God throughout my consultations.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had been sitting in my ready to read shelf for a long time. Then when I started reading it, I almost put it down because of its oversimplified theology. But then I gave it a second chance and found some redeeming qualities. So I upgraded the initial intentional rating of one star to a three stars rating.

[Annette Ridenour · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it when I worked at the park. Some good reminders of God’s purpose for work.

[Andrew Sing · Rating 3 out of 5]

A simple clear and concise book on the theology of work, God's mission in the world and our role in it. Gone is the spiritual / secular divide. Rather everything and everywhere is in the sights of God and he sends us out just as we are into those places - working in and through all things as a means of worship. Work is to be enjoyed if only we had God's perspective on it as he intends!