During this political season so far there's been lots of talk about classes of people and who appeals to each class or group better than someone else.
There are classes even in the workplace with the front line employees often believing the executives don't understand them. Often it does seem that an executive has become out of touch with what's going on at the front desk or on the shop floor.
No matter how many management layers have been taken out of our workplace it's still hierarchical in nature and we can easily get caught up in trying to "move up". We often aspire to join the upper levels of our organization even as we criticize them.
It can be easy to fall into the trap of believing that one group or class of people and their jobs is more important than another. That we ourselves are more important than others in the organization. Or, that we're worthless because we're not in a position of official power within the department or company.
In Romans 12:3-8, Paul charges us to resist this tendency:
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assisgned. For as in one body we have many memebers, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us...
Each of us really does play an important role in the organizations we work in. While none of us is irreplaceable in the sense that the company can't go one without us, every single person working in an organization is important to the performance and success of that organization. The challenge for us as people of faith is to remember that and to treat those around us as the valuable contributors they are.
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