CS Lewis: Boiling an Egg

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Bob Greene: How does a biblical framework help us navigate these distorted ways of thinking about work? And I'll go first on this. CS Lewis says, boiling an egg is the same process whether you are a Christian or a pagan. Let's run with this. We have this tendency to spiritualize or secularize the language of calling. The fall distorts it. So here's the quote from Luther, which I think and hope would be helpful. There's not a slice of that isn't common grace and then the rest of it for curses. It doesn't divide those up.

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