Productivity Gospel™ (n.) A false belief system that equates a person’s worth, identity, and spiritual maturity with their productivity, performance, and usefulness.

You’ve been praised for being dependable. For always showing up, always saying yes, always holding it down. And somewhere along the way, you learned that being needed meant being valuable—and being tired meant you were doing something right.

You didn’t just learn this in the world—you absorbed it in church, in leadership, in your own quiet time. The messages were subtle, spiritual, and constant: Do more. Give more. Be more.

Welcome to the trap of the Productivity Gospel™—a belief system that tells you your worth comes from your output, and your faithfulness is measured by your performance.

This lesson is where we start pulling the thread. Because what you believe about God, yourself, and your work shapes everything. And before we can rebuild what’s true, we have to expose what’s not.