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To: Lorianne
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Puritan Work Ethic:

“The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”… This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications.

It judges every honorable job to be of intrinsic value, and integrates every vocation with a Christian’s spiritual life. It makes every job consequential by regarding it as the arena for glorifying and obeying God and for expressing love (through service) to a neighbor.”


Puritan Work Ethic: the Dignity of Life’s Labors
Christianity Today, October 1979, p. 15
44 posted on 08/15/2016 11:33:34 AM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: donna
“The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”… This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications."

Off topic, but this is not a Puritan distinctive at all. Read any Catholic spiritual manual, and you find this point hammered over and over and over again: do your menial tasks with joy in a state of prayer. They are your means of sanctification in this life.

160 posted on 08/15/2016 1:36:19 PM PDT by Claud
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