This dilogical pattern has two kinds of applications: a) theoretical; the theological question regarding our role vis-a-vis God's role in works and actions in the world; b) the practical: the question regarding how we should regard careers in light of God's will and purpose for us and for the world. Both of these applications are treated in this one pattern.
"...As new creatures in Christ, Christians are to have a Christ-centered orientation in life. This orientation has major implications for the way we work. The repentance that is part of faith in Christ involves a renunciation of the egotism that produces selfish motivations for working. Those who bemoan the necessity of work may repent of their resentment of the burdensome aspect of labor, learning to accept it as a consequence of living in a fallen world and even as a way of identifying with the suffering of Christ. Alternatively those who tend to idolize career and the status it brings, sometimes to the point of becoming workaholics, may experience the release of discovering that self-identity and personal worth come from knowing God rather than one's prospects for promotion or salary scale."
"Our salvation is founded in One who himself worked at a carpenter's bench. He knew the toil of work, identifying himself with an aspect of the human condition that will persist until God's kingdom comes in its fullness. But Christ's identification with the worker gives our labor a dignity that can offset the drudgery. The sweaty brow remains a fact of life, but in Christ it becomes an element of servanthood."
J. Bernbaum, S. Steer, Why Work? Careers and Employment in Biblical Perspective. Baker(1986).