<p>What if the good life isn&#39;t getting <em>out</em> of work — but getting the <em>good</em> out of work?</p><p>A common narrative today is one that says the good life is what waits on the other side of our labor, that progress always means doing less, working less, and somehow still getting more, and that the human ideal is a consumer at leisure. It&#39;s a compelling story. And it&#39;s one most of us have swallowed whole. But is this really what it means to get the good out of work?</p><p>In Week 4 of our post-Easter series, <a href="https://www.christcity.life/geting-out-of-work" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Get(ting) Out of Work</a>, we look at Ephesians 2:1-10, sitting with Paul&#39;s quiet but weighty claim that we are &quot;created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.&quot; We explore what it means to stop <em>bargaining</em> with work and start <em>serving</em> it — and why that small reorientation might be the difference between a diminished life and a flourishing one, with Jesus.</p><p><strong>Questions for Reflection</strong></p><ol><li>Do you believe this? What keeps you from believing that work is the thing you <em>live</em> to do — not just something you do to live?</li><li>What would be different tomorrow if you entered your work not as something done to make a living, but as something you are <em>living</em> to do?</li><li>Where have you seen the goodness of someone &quot;serving&quot; work rather than &quot;bargaining&quot; with it?</li></ol><p><strong>Scripture: </strong>Ephesians 2:1-10; Psalm 27:4-6, 13-14; Psalm 92:13-14; 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Voices/Quotes:</strong></p><ul><li>Dorothy Sayers, <em>Why Work?</em> </li><li>Annie Dillard, <em>The Writing Life</em></li></ul><p><a href="https://christ-city-church.squarespace.com/s/Geting-Out-of-Work_Wk-4_May-3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sermon Notes &amp; Liturgy</a></p><p>We take a month or so every year to consider, together, the rhythm of creation according to God&#39;s design: <a href="https://www.christcity.life/sabbath-work-practices" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sabbath &amp; Work</a></p><p>Christ City Church is a small faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas. We gather Sundays at 10:10 AM in the Chapel at LHBC.</p><p> 642 Brookhurst Dr., Dallas, TX 75218.</p><p>Learn more at <a href="https://www.christcity.life" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">christcity.life</a></p><p><br></p>