John Knapp had seminary students interview 230 people from a variety of occupations. They were asked to identify a particular episode in their work like where they had confronted an ethical issue. They were asked if the church was helpful to them in that instance. You could count the number who said yes on one hand. More than two hundred never even sought help because they believed the church wouldn't understand or wouldn't care.For many Christians who work in a business environment there is a great divide between work and faith. Bringing your faith into the workplace is often discouraged by the business world. At the same time, as Knapp's research reveals, the world of the church is oblivious to the business world and to the challenges businesspeople face. Why is this so and what can we do about it? The book's agenda is to get us started thinking about these questions.The book works well for a Christian Education or small group study. The book consists of eight chapters divided into two parts consisting of four chapters each. There are excellent discussion questions at the end of each chapter. But the book also is well footnoted with a bibliography for further reading for those who may want to go deeper. The book is well written and accessible.The first section of the book is titled "Worlds Apart." Knapp lays out the contribution that both the business world and the church world makes to the faith and work divide. There is a chapter about the church's historical ambivalence toward money and another about who Christians try to cope with divided lives.The second section of the book is titled "Toward Coherence." Knapp discusses the need to rethink our understanding of vocation and to develop a moral theology of work. The church has become consumed with offering therapeutic religiosity services and with programming that attends to the private spheres of life. What is needed is a public theology with a vision for sending people in mission into their particular work contexts. Knapp devotes a chapter to describing a burgeoning layperson led movement to address the work and faith divide but the notable piece in it all is the absence of the institutional church from the struggle.In the last chapter, Knapp recounts the little known story of Charles Sheldon who pastored in Topeka, Kansas, in the 1890s. He was the author of the classic book "In His Steps" upon which the modern "What Would Jesus Do?" movement was based. This was the question Sheldon invited his congregation to ask for a year. But prior to that, Sheldon had experience and epiphany of his own. Sheldon took a twelve week sabbatical from all but his preaching duties. During this sabbatical he entered the lives of everyday people following them around and participating in their workplaces. He hung out with doctors, real estate people, accountants, dry goods and hardware employees, railroad workers, printers, as well as college students. He spent time as a homeless man looking for a job. He spent time in the African-American neighborhoods. It was his entrance into the everyday lives of his community that transformed his ministry. He saw that the primary locus of his congregants' ministry was in their daily work.If things are to change within the institutional church, there will need to be a rethink by pastors of the type of leadership they provide. It will need to escape the sacred/secular and private/public dualities that exist in the church. Churches are going to have to confront their own business practices. They must create a worship environment and communal life that supports a healthy idea of vocation and mission.I found the book to both challenging and respectful. It offers some practical first steps for escaping our present dilemma. The book deserves a wide reading by both pastors and congregants alike.