Work Can Be

Duty

Toil

Tasks

Action

Avodah

Effect

Effort

Labour

Calling

Service

Industry

Vocation

Endeavour

Operation

Assignment

Employment

Management

Occupation

Practicing

Production

Doing a job

What we are

A good thing

Accomplishment

A gift from God

Making or doing

Paid employment

A form of worship

Food for our soul

Yoked with Christ

A spiritual calling

Co-creating with God

Exertion of strength

Operations carried on

The sweat of our brow

Tasks to be undertaken

Something that God does

Vocational faithfulness

Executing assigned tasks

A way God forms our heart

Part of God’s big picture

Where discipleship happens

Something God equips us to do

Our reward, strength and pleasure

Customary engagement or employment

What we do between periods of rest

Serving and providing for the world

The only thing that truly satisfies

A process of creating and recreating

What we do in our job and our career

Activity involving effort or exertion

The principal source of life's meaning

The activity of play through discipline

A creative contribution to the common good

An essential part of our image bearing nature

The provision of what people need to flourish

Worship, service, ministry, and craftsmanship

The best way to pull ourselves out of the depths

The production of effects by action or influence

Manual labour performed, whether severe or moderate

An activity that produces something of value for other people

Our specific and invaluable contribution to God’s ongoing creation

Tending this created order for God’s glory and for the betterment of humankind

A contribution to the good of all and not merely a means to our own advancement

An essential aspect of God’s great commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves

Human activity that contributes towards the goods and services within an economy

Taking raw materials and rearranging them for the benefit and flourishing of the human race

All activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result

The creation of something, pouring ourselves into it, and mastering our craft as best as we can

Intentional activity we perform to support ourselves, others, or the needs and wants of a wider community

Particular roles and activities we are called to by God where we use the unique skills, gifts and talents He has provided