Matthew Kaemingk (co-author, with Calvin Seminary professor Cory Willson, of Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy) tells us that faith and work are best reintegrated through gathered worship. Sunday worship that is “vocationally conversant” purposefully invites Christians to bring our work into the church gathering where we can engage God with it. The rituals of Sunday worship should strengthen our spiritual muscles so that we can do good work for God’s glory. Sunday worship is meant to gather us in order to disperse us, called to serve others in our work and proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ.
Dr. Matthew Kaemingk serves as associate dean and assistant professor of Christian Ethics at the Texas campus of Fuller Theological Seminary.