Why Faith@Work is Important | Katherine Leary Alsdorf
Channel: Faith@Work Summit
Date: 2014-12-22

More than ever before, humanity is in a crisis over work. People change jobs and careers 6 times or more in their lives. Robotics will threaten even professional level vocations over the next decade. Darwinian competition trumps teamwork and human dignity. Our work – our commitment to bring God’s truth, love, and human dignity to the work lives of all people – has never been so important! How can we better equip ourselves for our work, for our calling? How do we help others work in a world that is increasingly unaware of and even hostile to the hope of the gospel? How does the Biblical story and a deep understanding of the gospel give us the resources to persevere, the winsomeness to witness, the character to be just, and the calling to make a difference?

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Katherine Leary Alsdorf

(BA, Wittenberg; MBA, Darden School, UVa) founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Center for Faith & Work in New York City and served as Executive Director from 2002 - 2012. She established the intensive Gotham Fellows program, an Entrepreneurship Initiative to start new gospel-centered ventures, Arts Ministries, and numerous vocation groups. She now helps churches in other cities to establish faith and work ministries. She spent 25 years in the high tech industry in California and New York. She is 
co-author with Tim Keller of Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work.
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Reflect/Respond

What changes are happening in our society that increase the need for gospel-centered workers 
and leaders?

How might we work together to better resource and empower Christian leaders and workers in their vocational callings?
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Resources
Timothy Keller with Katherine Leary Alsdorf, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, (Dutton, 2012)
Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters, (Dutton, 2009)
Tom Nelson, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work, (Crossway, 2011)
Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling, (InterVarsity, 2008)
Albert Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basis for a Reformational Worldview, (Erdmans, 1985, 2005)
Steve Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior, (InterVarsity, 2007) 
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