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Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.
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Indispensable
Paid
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We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.
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Dying
May
Soul
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The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.
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Fulfilled
Missionary
Spare Time
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As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.
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Humans
Identity
Way
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Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.
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Fields
Heart
Missionary
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People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.
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Needs
People
Vision
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Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.
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Christian
Narrative
Stories
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When God created the universe, this world beautifully and gloriously revealed his unfathomable being.
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This World
Unfathomable
World
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The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.
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Impact
Our World
Way
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For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.
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People
Reason
Relate
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When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.
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Anxiety
Security
Trying
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All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.
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Assumption
Expectations
Flow
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We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.
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Assumption
Deeper
Purpose
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The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.
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Civilization
Issues
World
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The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.
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Empowering
Views
Way
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I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.
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Christian
Church
Encounters
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If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.
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Quality
Paychecks
Thinking
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One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.
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Stories
Teaching
Unique
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Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.
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Innovative
New Work
Our World
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The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.
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Impact
Moving
People
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The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.
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Christ
Expression
Identity
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Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.
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Impact
Influence
Political
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When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.
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Encouragement
People
Purpose
Way
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Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.
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Intention
Order
World
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On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
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Calling
Flip
Purpose
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If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.
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Able
Calling
Profound
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One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.
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Doe
Fundamentals
Waking
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If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.
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Technology
Grateful
People
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The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.
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Attitude
Integrating
People
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When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day.
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Might
Our World
Thinking
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When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God.
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Host
Our Society
People
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When we think about our work it deals with our motivations, our desires, our sense of security, purpose, and status. Our work deals with a whole host of relationships. Work impacts the flourishing of individuals, communities, and nations.
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Impact
Motivation
Thinking
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The Bible reminds people that the whole of Scriptures addresses the whole of our lives, including our work. We need to be reminded of this every time we open the Bible, so that we experience the hope and power of the gospel in our work every day.
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Addresses
Needs
People
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Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this faith commitment is the belief it's okay to do mediocre work so that in your free time you can enjoy your true passions.
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Commitment
Passion
People
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One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from our modern world today. Many established realities we encounter daily, like non-profit and for-profit corporations, did not exist in the ancient world.
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Encounters
People
Reality
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When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they were attacking us. This response shows how instead of taking criticism in ways that help us in our work, we become easily defensive and negative.
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Children
Coffee
People
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Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.
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Humanity
Identity
Vacuums
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So much is wrapped up in our work and each book of the Bible points to Christ and the good news of what he's done that impacts the whole of our lives and the whole of our world. When our eyes are opened to see how each book of the Bible points us to the gospel, the relevance to our work and the need for this good news to enter into our work becomes increasingly evident.
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Book
Eye
Impact
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There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to work than just a paycheck. This is unfortunately a very common view which I believe accounts in part for the statistic that approximately 70% of people are disengaged at work. Think about the loss of meaning and productivity and the staggering economic implications of that statistic.
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Home
Believe
Loss
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