THIS FEELING'S GOT ME LIKE | "The Practice of Receiving"

“I’m not doing enough.”

These days we're all about optimization, self-hacking, and efficiency. We feel enslaved to our to-do lists. How do we resist some of these values?

In this sermon, Sarah Ngu examines the value of productivity in our workaholic society. It all began with industrial capitalism, which led to the “machinization” of the human body. But the Christian tradition starts from a very different place. Our faith begins from the premise that human beings are not machines created for labor, but that we are created to receive.

This is the first sermon in our Lenten series: “This Feeling's Got Me Like...".

Sarah NguForefront ChurchFebruary 21, 2021capitalism, productivity, work, to-do lists

WORK & CAPITALISM | "Work"

Christ disrupts everything we know about work, money, and merit.

In this third sermon in our Work & Capitalism Series, we welcome guest pastor, Candace Simpson, associate minister at Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York. In her message we are reminded that we do not have to work for pay to be worthy of life. Christ goes out to find the people who need a day’s wage. Because everyone has to eat. Christ disrupts everything we know about work, money, and merit.