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Taking Your Soul to Work: Overcoming the Nine Deadly Sins of the Workplace

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I haven't finished reading this book yet and may come back and add to the review. I'm about 2/3 done and this book has made me so uncomfortable that I don't know where to turn. The first section of the book on the soul-sapping struggles of work revealed just how much I am in need of grace even in areas that I never realized were holding me back. The second and third sections are organized in a schema that relates back to the first section and while the schema is useful, it might be better to think of those relations as being fluid. Love, for example, could help us address any one of the deadly sins. I haven't made it to the third section so I can't say anything about that.

What the authors make clear is that all parts of our lives revolve around God. Work is meaningful only when God is in the center, and only when surrender to God (and you'll have to read the book to find out how this surrender can take place) grounds our lives. This book is challenging me to think of work in completely new ways and that makes me uncomfortable. But I cannot argue with the truth of the authors' insights so far.

The book's writing style seems mostly directed at those in the corporate sector. The chapters are short and pithy but the questions and exercises they raise are pointed and I think very useful. This book will be relevant to everyone regardless of the type of work they do and I hope to convince my cell group to adopt it as part of their study this year.