Sunday-Monday Dichotomy

I have been teaching our Young Professionals Class at Church on a subject that has been on my heart, Faith in the Workplace. The following article was discussed on Sunday:

Sunday-Monday Dichotomy

Is there really a difference between Sunday and every other day of the week? We sometimes act like there is. Sunday is comprised of hymns and scripture, worship and visiting with other Christians. Then on Monday, we head back to work and life takes on its usual sort of flavor. Six days a week we take on the real tasks of living; Sunday comes and we go through the rituals of our faith. Sunday is the day off from the reality of life; one day out of seven where we can think in a different way about what is important. But alas, Monday comes and then it is back to normal. But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way. Maybe it would make more sense to understand Sunday as the day when we have the leisure to experience life as God really intended it to be. As Thomas Long would say: “Sunday is not just one more day in a string of days. Rather, Sunday, as the day of worship, is the essence of the week, the Day of all Days, the day that discloses what is deep and hidden, but nonetheless true, about every day.” To heighten the value of worship, to rethink the significance of Sunday, to refrain from thinking that the real world is what happens Monday through Saturday, such tasks strike deeply at the heart of Christian identity and faith. Worship is the place where, through language, song, scripture, prayer, and community, a vision of the “real world” is experienced. And it is that vision that corrects the false and inadequate visions of life that I encounter throughout the rest of the week.