I love the way Mark Buchanan describes the frustration we sometimes find when we think about, “our job.” If this connect with you, I hope you will join us in person this weekend or online at www.firstmethodistmansfield.tv.

You don’t like your job.

It may be a great job. It may be engaging, rewarding, varied, with a fine balance of thrill and ease, intensity and serenity. It may be a job that calls for your creativity but doesn’t overtax it, demands your vigilance but applauds it even more, requires your diligence but pays for it lavishly. It may give you a sense of power and virtue and importance and provide for your sleek cars and exotic rugs and handcrafted furniture and trips to warm places while everyone else is scraping thick rinds of ice from their windshields.

Still, you don’t like it, and least not always. Some days you do, that’s true. Some days you stretch out into it like a wild horse loosed after a tethering, thundering across open plain, gaining fresh strength with each stride.

But some days it’s not like that at all. You’re more like a wild horse, haltered, corralled, backed into a stall. It’s more like dressing in wet denim, like having a root canal without anesthetic. You have more of these days that you like to admit – when the work is fistful of thistles, and you dream of being someone else, somewhere else, doing something else.

Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God, pg. 13

This new series kicks off this weekend! Here’s a brief synopsis of the next three weeks.

In the first century, the Apostle Paul writes to the Christians living in Rome, “Take your everyday, ordinary life… and place it before God as an offering.” Ordinary may be the perfect way to describe what your typical Monday looks like. When the work week begins, we all find ourselves at different places filling different roles, but our experience of that first day of the week is often very similar. The work week officially begins, and it hits us like a brick! Monday often pulls us back to reality, and the reality we often find ourselves living is less than the significance that we had hoped we might one day find.

Is it possible that in the midst of the rat race many of us finding ourselves running we might truly live this instruction in Paul’s letter to the Romans? Can the monotony of our Mondays and the work we provide for a job or our family really be an “offering” to God? And if so, is that where the significance we are all searching for has been hiding all along?

During this three week series, we’re going to be talking about Making Mondays Matter, and the calling we have on our lives as followers of Christ to present all our lives before God as our gift to the one who has given us life.

If you are looking for something more from your Mondays, don’t miss this series.