The Work Ethic

The Cry Freedom Workshop

Overview Statement

• For nations to prosper economically, they must live out a work ethic – work as hard as you can, save as much as you can, give as much as you can.

Introductory Questions• Identify where the average citizen in your country

would be in their attitude towards work:Our Dignity -------------------------------------------A Curse • Why do people think this way?• How does it impact the way they work or seek to

avoid work?• What are the economic consequences for the

society?

Post Video Discussion

• What is the opposite – antithesis - of this principle?• On a scale moving from 1-10 with 1 being the opposite

of this principle and 10 being the perfect application of this principle, where does your nation fall.

• Give illustrations or stories to demonstrate your answer. These can be for the principle or the antithesis as you have observed it.

• The church is to be the conscience of the nation. How might the church begin to speak prophetically on this principle to the civic leaders in the community and in the nation?

Scripture Discovery

• Read: – Set # 1: Genesis 1: 26-28; 2:15, 19-20; Psalms 8:3-

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• Questions: – What is mankind put on the earth to do?– How do they do it?

Scripture Discovery

• Read:– Set #1: Genesis 2:2; 2:15 Ruth 2: 14-19

• Questions:– What do these passages reveal about work?– Identify how Boaz, a man, treated Ruth, a woman.

Scripture Discovery

• Read: Genesis 41• Question:– What was the meaning of Pharaoh’s dream?– Because Joseph knew the meaning of the dream,

what principle did he know he had to apply?– What did Joseph do?

Scripture Discovery

• Read: – Lev. 27:30; Deu. 15:10; Proverbs 11:25; Matt. 6:1-

4; 2 Corinthians 9:7

• Questions: – What principles can you gain about giving?