(1) Ben Witherington, Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor (Eerdmans, 2011), 2. Read more about the call to work in Genesis in the Theology of Work Bible Commentary: The Work of the Creation Mandate (Genesis 1:28, 2:15) Refresh my experience of work as your truth takes hold of me. Jesus, I ask for wisdom and revelation as I study what your word says about work. When, if ever, has work felt like something you were designed for? Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. People who are cut off from work because of physical or other reasons quickly discover how much they need work to thrive emotionally, physically, and spiritually.Įxcerpt from Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller. Tim Keller: Every Good Endeavor, Chapter 8 Work Reveals Our Idols (Sunday March 22, 2015) Exodus 34:17 New American Standard Bible (NASB) 17 You shall make for yourself no molten gods. Without meaningful work we sense significant inner loss and emptiness. Work is as much a basic human need as food, beauty, rest, friendship, prayer, and sexuality it is not simply medicine but food for our soul. Yet we do not see work brought into our human story after the fall of Adam, as part of the resulting brokenness and curse it is part of the blessedness of the garden of God. The fact that God put work in paradise is startling to us because we so often think of work as a necessary evil or even punishment. It was part of God’s perfect design for human life, because we were made in God’s image, and part of his glory and happiness is that he works, as does the Son of God, who said, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working” (John 5:17). One biblical scholar summed it up: “It is perfectly clear that God’s good plan always included human beings working, or more specifically, living in the constant cycle of work and rest.”(1) |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.The book of Genesis leaves us with a striking truth-work was part of paradise. |a Work |x Religious aspects |x Christianity. |a Keller shows how excellence, integrity, discipline, creativity, and passion in the workplace can help others and even be considered acts of worship-not just of self-interest. A new story for work - A new conception of work - A new compass for work - New power for work - Epilogue: Leading people to integrate faith and work. Work becomes fruitless - Work becomes pointless - Work becomes selfish - Work reveals our idols - Gospel and work. The design of work - The dignity of work - Work as cultivation - Work as service - Our problems with work. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-284). |a Every good endeavor : |b connecting your work to God's work / |c Timothy Keller with Katherine Leary Alsdorf. |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d IG# |d BTCTA |d BDX |d OCLCO |d UPZ |d YDXCP |d ZGV |d IH8 |d KAA |d BWX |d ABG |d TLE |d CDX |d LNT |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d TLE |d FCX
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