The Trend of "Quiet Quitting"
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
A new workplace trend, called "Quiet Quitting," isn't about quitting your job but about how hard you work while there. It's about rejecting "the idea of going above and beyond," said one influencer. "You're still performing your duties but you're no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life."
There's been so much upheaval in the economy and the workforce lately, and Christians can point to a better way: God designed humans to work, but not for work's sake or even consumption's sake. Work is a way we image God, making the world all it can be.
And God also gave the gift of rest, baking the Sabbath into the creation and even modeling it for us. It's almost as if God knew that after the fall, humans would be tempted to make work an idol. (Hint: He did know.)
What "quiet quitting" misses is that it's not about whether or not to "go above and beyond." It's about whether our work has purpose, not as an end in and of itself, but as an act of worship, excellence, and love of neighbor.
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| 0:00.0 | What's all this about Quiet Quitting for the Colson Center? |
| 0:03.0 | I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:05.0 | A new workplace trend called Quiet Quitting isn't about quitting your job, it's about how hard you work while there. |
| 0:10.0 | It's about, quote, the idea of going above and beyond, as one influencer put it. |
| 0:15.0 | You're still performing your duties, but no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. Well, there's been a |
| 0:22.2 | whole lot of upheaval in the economy and workforce lately, and Christians can point to a better |
| 0:27.0 | way, that God design humans to work, but not for work's sake, or even consumption's sake. Work |
| 0:32.5 | is a way that we image God, making the world all that it can be. And God also gave us the gift of rest, baking the |
| 0:39.5 | Sabbath into the creation, even modeling it for us. It's almost as if God knew that after the fall, |
| 0:44.7 | humans would be tempted to make work an idol. By the way, he did. What quiet quitting |
| 0:49.0 | this is, is that it's not about whether or not to go above and beyond. It's about whether our work |
| 0:53.5 | has purpose, |
| 0:54.5 | not as an end in and in of itself, |
| 0:56.1 | but as an act of worship, |
| 0:57.8 | excellence, and the love of neighbor. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm John Stone Street. |
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