90,000 Hours

The Silicon Valley Hustle:

_______________ at any cost                     -->    “Success” at the expense of _______________

_______________ as a badge of honor    -->    Overworked yet under _______________

_______________ freedom the goal         -->    More money but less _______________

 

90,000 HOURS

What does “success” look like?

How do you move from burnout to a healthy work-life balance?

Is there a way to infuse your work with meaning and purpose?

Are you destined to eke out your days, or is there a better way to work?

Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.

Proverbs 29:18

 

A Theology of Work:

1. God _______________ & created us to be _______________ with Him. [Genesis 1-2]

Myths about Work:

- Work is a necessary _______________.

- Work is _______________.

- Work defines my _______________.

- Work is only what you’re _______________ for.

Vocation: from the Latin “vocaré” to call.

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it and you do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests.

- Tim Keller

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Colossians 3:23-24

 

2. God set _______________ to work for our good. [Genesis 2:2-3; Mark 2:27]

You are a _______________ _______________ with a _______________ _______________ that requires daily renewal and weekly sabbath reset.

Biblical Sabbath is a twenty-four-hour block of time in which we stop work, enjoy rest, practice delight, and contemplate God.

- Peter Scazzero

Busyness is not a means to accomplishment but an obstacle to it.

- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

 

3. After the Fall, work became _______________. [Genesis 3:17]

 

4. All work _______________ work is _______________ work. [Colossians 3:23-24]

- Excellence [Proverbs 22:29]

- Diligence [Proverbs 12:24]

- Integrity [Proverbs 11:1]

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Colossians 3:23-24