Abstract
Robert Huie has raised important questions in his response to my fall 1996 article in the Journal of Biblical Integration in Business. For if we are to live lives of faithful obedience to Christ, we must understand who God is and who we are. My purpose in writing the article “Toward a Biblical Understanding of the Work Ethic” was not to describe all of who God is and all of who we are as His creatures, but rather to describe one aspect of God’s divinity and our humanity: work. It is my conviction that popular notions of work, such as the Protestant work ethic, can be useful to Christians if they are used with discernment.
