The Bible is “an album of casual photographs of labourers…. A book by workers,
about workers, for workers – that is the Bible.” Paul Minear1
The Trinity and Human Work
The relational character of God has implications for work.
First, human work, shaped by the Triune God is essentially personal. Just as each person of the Trinity brings otherness and difference—origin, implementation and empowerment—so each human being has a distinctive work to bring to the world. .
Second, human work is God‐like when it is relational. This means that we are designed to work together, each person’s work is to be enriched by and intended to enrich his or her neighbour.
David Jensen describes this beautifully: “The work of creating, redeeming, and transforming the world is not a one‐time fiat of a divine monarch or the result of three separate decrees, but a movement of distinctive personal work sustained by a community of love.”
7 Gone, or rather, never to have been invented in the first place, is a hierarchy of occupations with the pastor and people‐helping professionals at the top and the ditch digger and stock‐broker at the bottom. Each person has something to give and each person needs others to complete their own work. This is something revealed throughout the first five books and the stories of workers contained in these accounts.
