To the extent that work is instrumentalized as a means to an end, its value is conditioned by that end.  Work, in and of itself, is devalued.  In order to take work seriously, a theology would hav to uncouple work from its outcomes and consider it non-sequentially.  That is to say, in order to take work seriously as work, we would have to acknowledge its unconditional givenness.  We would have to see work as a grace.

Adam S. Miller, Rube Goldberg Machines, pg. 8