Os Hillman's presentation to Restoration Church May 22, 2022

1. Your
matters to God
Seeing work through God’s eyes
Os Hillman
Wednesday night, May 22

2. Your
matters to God
Seeing work through God’s eyes
Os Hillman

3. • Jewish Johnny’s 12 year old class – “The most famous man in the
bible $2 contest.”

4. Your
matters to God
Seeing work through God’s eyes
Os Hillman
RESTORATION@WORK

5. Dr. PAMELA
HILLMAN
Founder & President
LifeChangersLegacy.org

6. My Story
1982-1994

7. “You have a ‘Joseph Calling’”
1996
J. Gunnar Olson
Founder ICCC

8. 1997

9. “WRITE”
CINDY JACOBS 1997

10. 1998
105 Nations
TodayGodIsFirst.com

11. Dream 1994

12. Equip Leaders in 26 Countries
Promise Keepers

13. 26 Books/26 Nations
www.tgifbookstore.com

14. How many of you are
in full-time Christian work?

15. “I’m in ministry”

16. Unspoken, implied hierarchy
of spiritual calling.
Pastor
Missionary
Church Worker
Stay-at-home mom
Plumber
CEO/Executive
Scum of the Earth
Ad Agency Executive

17. 1998
Awakening in America
Faith@Work Movement

18. 300 AD
“Catholic Distortion”
Sacred vs secular
1200 AD
“Protestant Distortion”
Work = vocation vs a Calling
Net?
• 2nd class citizens
• Work is less spiritual
• Money is evil
• Workers viewed for $
by clergy vs calling

19. Key Issues/Barriers
• Sacred/Secular
• Equality in Calling
• Defining Ministry
• Local Church as
An Equipper

20. How did work get
such a bad rap!?
Understanding God’s View of Work

21. So, what really happened in
that garden?
“Cursed is the ground”
Gen 3:17
Lost
dominion
Joy to
Toil
Sweat
Thorns

22. Luke 19:10
“For the Son of Man has
come to seek and to save
that which was lost.”
• Relationship to God
• Work

23. God sent his only son to earth and made him
work as a carpenter for over half his life.
Then He recruited 12 common workers
to fulfill His mission on earth.

24. WORK
Meet
human
needs
Work is
worship
“Avodah”
“Ministry”
equates to
“Service”
“diakonia”
Work IS Ministry

25. Give $
Dt 8:18
WORK
Meet
human
needs
Work is
worship
“Avodah”
Platform
Influence -
societal
transformation
“Ministry”
equates to
“Service”
“diakonia”
Work IS Ministry Work TO Minister
Col 3:23-25
And whatever you do,
do it heartily,
as to the Lord and not to men,
knowing that from the Lord
you will receive the reward
of the inheritance;
for you serve the Lord Christ.
Care
for
Poor
Lev 19:9-10

26. God Desires to Establish Our Work
“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon
us; establish the work of our hands for us--
yes, establish the work of our hands.”
Ps 90:17

27. Jesus, the carpenter’s son

28. Jesus & Paul modeled
work life ministry.
• Of 132 public appearances in NT,
122 in the marketplace
• Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a
workplace context.
• Of 40 miracles in the book of Acts,
39 were in the marketplace.

29. Work, in its different forms is mentioned
more than 800 times in the Bible more
than all the words used to express
worship, music, praise and singing
combined.

30. “I have need of your ‘donkey’”

31. Where did David go after being
anointed by Samuel?
Returned to the sheep after being anointed
by Samuel to be king – 1 Samuel 16:19

32. “Usually, a person
should keep on with the
work he was doing
when God called him.”
I Cor. 7: 20

33. Paul to Titus on Island of Crete
“Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-
minded, in all things showing yourself to be a
pattern of good works..…. that they may
adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all
things.”
Titus 2:6-10

34. “What Defines a Christian
in the Workplace?”
– NY Times Reporter, 2004

36. 5 Dimensions of Faith Works
Eqypt – “Flesh/Carnal”
The World System – “Sweat & Toil”
Esau
Principle-based
Formula – “10 Steps “Religion”
Moses
“Spoken Word”
“Speak to the Rock!”
Spiritual authority – Keys of Kingdom
Directed by Holy Spirit –
Your “Staff”
“Relationship w God”
Implement purely
on skill
Life of Sin
So, he said to me, "This is the
word of the LORD to
Zerubbabel: `Not by might nor
by power, but by my Spirit,' says
the LORD Almighty (Zech 4:6)
Spirit-led
Romans 8:14
“I will instruct you and teach
you in the way you should
go; I will guide you with My
eye.” Ps 32:8
“Joseph Pit”
Character development

37. Moses
“Perform miracles.”
“But take this staff in your hand so you can
perform miraculous signs with it."
Ex 4:17

38. “Speak to Your Books!”
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be
removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not
doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will
be done, he will have whatever he says. Mk 11:23

39. Why was Jesus so influential?

40. 1. Supernatural
2. Problem Solver

41. “And through the hands of the apostles many signs and
wonders were done among the people. And they were all
with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.” Acts 5:12

42. The512Project.com

43. “The Church of Jesus looks
more like a luxury cruise liner
instead of an aircraft carrier
designed to equip and
commission an army.”
Doug Spada, WorkLife Ministries
…to prepare God's people for works of service. . Eph 4:11

44. The local church should be a Holy Spirit
“Killer Sheep” training camp established to train men and
women to destroy the works of Satan.

45. Killer Sheep

46. Killer Sheep

47. Ekklesia is a people movement designed to operate
24/7 in the marketplace for the purpose of having an
impact on everybody and everything.

48. Problem: We Have Unbiblical View of Work and Ministry
Church leaders often fail to see work as a holy calling.
Church leadership has spent lots of its
energy equipping us to do their ministry,
instead of our ministry in the workplace.

49. DR. C. PETER WAGNER

50. “The Two Types of Churches”
Peter Wagner
Nuclear Church
Unique rulebook
1 2
Extended Church
Unique rulebook

51. Jesus spent 3 years investing in 12
workplace place leaders.
How much time & resources does the local
church spend training workplace leaders to
see their work as a calling and a ministry?

52. The church on Monday should be having
more impact than the church on Sunday!

53. “I believe that one of
the next great moves of
God is going to be
through believers in the
workplace.”
Dr. Billy Graham
2004

54. Nuclear Church is Called to EQUIP You & Me!
And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of
the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of
Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God…..Ephesians 4:11-13

55. Restoration@Work
Coming Fall 2024

56. Is Your Work Worship?

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