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- 1. GOD DESIGNED USTO WORK Child’s play is apprenticeship to adult work. - Eugene Peterson
- 2. TEXT WHAT WE DO Allother work 98% Church/mission 2%
- 3. EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA(4TH C) Perfect Life: “above nature and beyond common human living” Permitted Life: “a kind of secondary grade of piety”
- 4. TEXT Perfect Life spiritual contemplative things ofheaven life in the church EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA (4TH C) Permitted Life physical active things of earth life in the world Sadly this “two-tier” or “double-life” view of calling flagrantly perverted biblical teaching by narrowing the sphere of calling and excluding most Christians from its scope. - Os Guinness
- 5. GENESIS 1 THEN GODSAID, “LET US MAKE MANKIND IN OUR IMAGE, IN OUR LIKENESS, SO THAT THEY MAY RULE OVER THE FISH IN THE SEA AND THE BIRDS IN THE SKY, OVER THE LIVESTOCK AND ALL THE WILD ANIMALS, AND OVER ALL THE CREATURES THAT MOVE ALONG THE GROUND.” SO GOD CREATED MANKIND IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED THEM; MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM. GOD BLESSED THEM AND SAID TO THEM, “BE FRUITFUL AND INCREASE IN NUMBER; FILL THE EARTH AND SUBDUE IT. RULE OVER THE FISH IN THE SEA AND THE BIRDS IN THE SKY AND OVER EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT MOVES ON THE GROUND.” THEN GOD SAID, “I GIVE YOU EVERY SEED- BEARING PLANT ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH AND EVERY TREE THAT HAS FRUIT WITH SEED IN IT. THEY WILL BE YOURS FOR FOOD. AND TO ALL THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH AND ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY AND ALL THE CREATURES THAT MOVE ALONG THE GROUND—EVERYTHING THAT HAS THE BREATH OF LIFE IN IT—I GIVE EVERY GREEN PLANT FOR FOOD.” AND IT WAS SO.
- 6. GENESIS 2 THEN THELORD GOD FORMED A MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, AND THE MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING. NOW THE LORD GOD HAD PLANTED A GARDEN IN THE EAST, IN EDEN; AND THERE HE PUT THE MAN HE HAD FORMED. THE LORD GOD MADE ALL KINDS OF TREES GROW OUT OF THE GROUND— TREES THAT WERE PLEASING TO THE EYE AND GOOD FOR FOOD. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN WERE THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. . . . THE LORD GOD TOOK THE MAN AND PUT HIM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN TO WORK IT AND TAKE CARE OF IT. AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE MAN, “YOU ARE FREE TO EAT FROM ANY TREE IN THE GARDEN; BUT YOU MUST NOT EAT FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, FOR WHEN YOU EAT FROM IT YOU WILL CERTAINLY DIE.” THE LORD GOD SAID, “IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE MAN TO BE ALONE. I WILL MAKE A HELPER SUITABLE FOR HIM.” NOW THE LORD GOD HAD FORMED OUT OF THE GROUND ALL THE WILD ANIMALS AND ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. HE BROUGHT THEM TO THE MAN TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD NAME THEM; AND WHATEVER THE MAN CALLED EACH LIVING CREATURE, THAT WAS ITS NAME. SO THE MAN GAVE NAMES TO ALL THE LIVESTOCK, THE BIRDS IN THE SKY AND ALL THE WILD ANIMALS. BUT FOR ADAM NO SUITABLE HELPER WAS FOUND.
- 7. CREATED IN GOD’SIMAGE “rule”“subdue”
- 8. “Work and takecare” CREATED TO CO-WORK WITH GOD “Name”
- 9. CULTIVATORS AND CREATORS God’sfirst and best gift to humanity is culture, the realm in which human beings will be the cultivators and creators, ultimately contributing to the cosmic purposes of the Cultivator and Creator of the natural world. - Andy Crouch
- 10. Look in Look out Lookup PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD True vocation joins self and service as Frederick Buechner asserts when he defines vocation as “the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” - Parker Palmer
- 11. COLOSSIANS 3:17 Surely, nomatter what you are doing (speaking, writing, or working), do it all in the name of Jesus our Master, sending thanks through Him to God our Father.