Perhaps the teacher was attempting to refute the idea that is common in Charismatic circles that only "churchy" things glorify God. The NT sanctifies the entire life, worldy vs. non-worldy is a Biblical distinction, but villifying things like work, caring for one's family, and stuff like that as not "for God" is not. And this is how it is often perceived, a false distinction between things that are done "for God", and those mundane things we must do to get through life. This was one of the tenets of the reformation in fact, it overturned this kind of thinking in Catholicism, which had produced evils like monasticism and celibacy (the belief that celibacy was more godly than marriage).

We had a discussion on this in Ex-charisma a while back, it came out that charismatic men tended to let their careers languish in favor of churchy things. They bordered on slackers at work, and were often first in line for layoffs and last in line for promotions.

The women were no less abused by this doctrine, often apologizing for having college degrees as something they did "before they were Christians".

- Kurt