12. Work-Justice Balance

Work Justice Balance

Talk 12 of 16 in the series: The Bible’s Challenge to a Dead World (Genesis 1-11)

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“You must not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain”
Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:17

1. Biblical View of Work Revisited
2. Materialist Culture
   • no meaning or morality
   • possessions and pleasures
   • ‘that’s no fair’
3. Justice
   • social division
   • justice is more than social engineering
   • retributive justice is distributive as well
   • grace trumps justice
4. Bible’s Challenge to a Dead World
   • the social difference
   • justice and grace
   • the personal difference