Pharisees are like OH&S.No idea what I was thinking about at the time.
Perhaps I was thinking about how to explain the concept of Pharisees to workers. Pharisees are like most Occupational Health and Safety officers in that they are often interested in the minimum requirement. It's not about wanting to make a safe work environment but, wanting to do just enought to be seen to have done the job.
Then again I could have been thinking something completely different.
--UPDATE--
After a couple of comments, let me state this is not a veiled dig at those who banned handball. The note was dated long before that came up.
Completely unrelated.
Now while I'm on OH&S, I'm reminded of a song I wrote while doing my ministry apprenticeship. As part of our orientation, we all were given a document to especially read over and then find a creative way to present to the staff team. Having been given the AFES Occupational Health and Safety Code, I wrote a song; which involved me playing guitar and everyone singing along to a chorus. The verses were spoken and had associated dance moves such as 'The correct lifting technique' and the 'correct posture when using a computer'. The chorus went;
O, H and S
It's just common sense,
Put in a rather large document.
Hey no fair. The committee I am part of really wants everyone to be safe. Like, really. Maybe it's the student OH&S committee you speak of?
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Maybe it was handball and OH&S you were thinking about.
ReplyDeleteOh, sorry. I should have realised people would think I was talking about the whole handball blow-up.
ReplyDeleteNo, the note was dated from before all the handball stuff. I think I wrote it down in the middle of a sermon when the preacher was talking about modern equivalents to Pharisees. My new congregation of which I am a part has predominantly youth and young workers and I've been thinking about how I make illustrations relevant to them. I'm pretty sure I had a flash back to staff meetings when I worked at a supermarket where we were forced to practice getting up and down off step-ladders.
So, no definitely not a veiled dig at handball.
Swimming against the thread drift...
ReplyDeleteMaybe because they're focused on getting the work environment right instead of the actual work which should be taking place in the environment?
There's a lot of that spirit in religious circles.
I like that Gary. It's the actions which appear to be the right thing, but that actually get in the way of the essence of the work.
ReplyDeleteExcept I'm almost certain that it was nothing as profound as that when I first noted it down.