#fellow workers

Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips - The Internationale (Instrumental) (1999) Pierre Degeyter from: “Fellow Workers” (LP | CD) "Singing Through the Hard Times - A Tribute to Utah Phillips (CD 2 | 2009)

Anthem | Instrumental

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Personnel: Ani DiFranco: Guitar / Banjo / Mandolin Utah Phillips: Guitar Julie Wolf: Accordion Jason Mercer: Double Bass Daren Hahn: Drums / Percussion

Produced by Ani DiFranco

Recorded: @ Kingsway Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana USA 1999

Released: on May 18, 1999 Righteous Babe Records (USA) Cooking Vinyl (UK)

"Fellow Workers!" is the phrase with which members of the Industrial Workers of the World traditionally begin their public addresses.

God's Fellow Workers

“…for we are all born to be fellow-workers, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids; as the rows of the upper and under teeth: for such therefore to be in opposition, is against nature; and what is it to chafe at, and to be averse from, but to be in opposition?” 

Keep Praying and Watching

1 Owners, give your servants what is right. Do the same for all. Remember that your Owner is in heaven.

Some Things to Do

2 You must keep praying. Keep watching! Be thankful always. 3 As you pray, be sure to pray for us also. Pray that God will open the door for us to preach the Word. We want to tell the secret of Christ. And this is the reason I am in prison. 4 Pray that I will be able to preach so everyone can understand. This is the way I should speak. 5 Be wise in the way you live around those who are not Christians. Make good use of your time. 6 Speak with them in such a way they will want to listen to you. Do not let your talk sound foolish. Know how to give the right answer to anyone.

Paul’s Helpers Say Hello

7 Tychicus will tell you how I am getting along. He is a much-loved brother and faithful helper. Both of us are owned by the Lord. 8 This is the reason I have sent him to you. It is so you can know about us. He can also bring joy to your hearts. 9 Onesimus is going with Tychicus. He is one of your own people. He is faithful and we love him very much. They will tell you about everything here.

10 One of the men here in prison with me is Aristarchus. He says hello you. Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, says hello. (You have heard before that if he comes to you, you are to receive him and make him happy.) 11 Jesus Justus says hello also. These are the only Jewish workers helping me teach about the holy nation of God. What a help they have been to me!

12 Epaphras says hello. He is one of your people and a servant of Jesus Christ. As he prays for you, he asks God to help you to be strong and to make you perfect. He prays that you will know what God wants you to do in all things. 13 I can tell you for sure that he works hard for you and for the Christians in the cities of Laodicea and Hierapolis. 14 Luke, the dear doctor, and Demas say hello. 15 Greet all the Christians in Laodicea. Greet Nympha and the Christians who gather for church in her house.

16 When this letter has been read to you, have it read in the church in Laodicea also. Be sure you read the letter that is coming from Laodicea. 17 Tell Archippus to be sure to finish the work the Lord called him to do.

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If you have a union with a no-strike clause (like the nursing union at federal gov’t hospital) then like….? Doesn’t that take the teeth out of the union?

A Word to the Wise…we are in this together whether we like it or not.

2 Cor 6 “A Word to My Fellow Workers”

This is how Paul sees his relationship with the Corinthians. How do you see your relationship with those you partner with at your church; are they your fellow workers as well?

Paul reminds us that as a fellow worker we are not to take or receive God’s grace in vain – that is as something that just came and went like a passing rain shower. No!  God’s grace…