I am not suggesting you shouldn't work hard, but I am suggesting that if you are defining your value by the chase-by your ambition, your work, and your achievement-then you are simply chasing after the wind, and ultimately, it is meaningless.

— Doug Fields (b. 1962), Jugendpastor, Autor und Redner

Related Bible passage: ECC.1.14

Topics: Work & Vocation, Meaning & Identity, Money & Possessions

Doug Fields

Der US-amerikanische evangelikale Pastor und Autor Doug Fields (* 1962) leitete fast zwei Jahrzehnte lang die Jugendarbeit der kalifornischen Saddleback Church. Bekannt wurde er als Pionier der modernen Jugendarbeit und Verfasser zahlreicher Praxishandbücher zu Leiterschaft, Ehe und Familie wie dem Standardwerk „Jugendarbeit mit Vision“. Für Bibelleser stehen seine Texte heute für eine praxisnahe und beziehungsorientierte Umsetzung biblischer Impulse im Gemeinde- und Familienalltag.

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