By Greg Forster; part six of a series. This series on daily work as a battle to reclaim the world from Satan started with a cosmic view of the holy war between God and Satan for control of the world. Then we applied this at the personal level and subsequently walked outward from there to the social level. As we…
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Work as Holy War: What’s Right?
By Greg Forster; part five of a series. We have been looking at how spiritual formation in daily work and resistance to the world’s injustice are deeply and extensively interdependent. Last time we began unpacking two amazing sentences about how we should do our daily work, drawn from Dallas Willard’s Divine Conspiracy in a section titled “The Glory of My Job.” The…
Work as Holy War: What’s Wrong?
By Greg Forster; part four of a series. Last time we saw how spiritual formation in daily work and resistance to the world’s injustice are deeply and extensively interdependent. We ended by contemplating two amazing sentences about how we should do our daily work, drawn from Dallas Willard’s Divine Conspiracy in a section titled “The Glory of My Job.” In this…
Work as Holy War: The War Within
By Greg Forster; part two of a series. We have seen that the cross is not only for saving, the cross is for destroying – destroying hell and all its works. John is pretty straightforward: “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” How does that apply to our daily work? Not to…
Work as Holy War
By Greg Forster; part one of a series. In this series, I’ll be looking at our daily work as a holy war to destroy the devil’s works. “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” He won the victory for us on the cross, of course. But as our work becomes cruciform it becomes a…