By David Gill, reprinted from The 313.
Courtney Moore is the El Paso-based founder and president of the non-profit Women & Work and co-host of the podcast “Women & Work.” She is a graduate of the University of Mobile and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In this book she has gathered essays from ten of her women friends reflecting on various aspects of biblical teaching and practical application of its insights on work. Voices from Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas (along with Colorado and California) – many of them educated at Southern Baptist schools – join together in an impressive chorus encouraging women not just in their work at home bearing and raising children (if that is their call) but out in the marketplaces, schools and all other locations imaginable.
The practical advice and encouragement for women and their particular challenges will no doubt help many. But what I found most impressive was the clear and profound biblical theology of work from cover to cover. Our work (for women as well as men) is to follow in the footsteps of our worker God, to understand God’s work and mission of creating, sustaining and redeeming, and to pursue that same divine work agenda in whatever work we do. Sharing our faith? of course! But obediently carrying on the work of God – expressing that image and likeness of the Creator and Redeemer embedded in each of us – gives us the bigger picture. Inspiring and exciting stuff!
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