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Series Introduction:
Welcome guests
Explain typical sermon series as walking through books and sections of the Scriptures
Why a series on work?
Mission statement -
As one of the pastor’s we’re committed to equipping you with understanding our call to work and our call to rest.
And I firmly believe that if we had a greater vision, a greater story about your work, our lives could be radically different.
And if you’re a guest, my heart goes out to the people of our community.
A nearly 17 year study conducted (by Gallup), reveals that the current state of workers—nation-wide is dismal as 70% of all Americans hate their job.
They define “hating their job” by two terms, those unengaged, and those disengaged from their work.
And the number is staggeringly low as 85% of employees world-wide are disengaged at work.
And in Japan only 6% of workers are engaged at work.
51% of all Americans are looking for a new job… something is wrong and we believe connecting faith and work is an essential step for us.
Connecting faith and work… what does that mean?
For some, that means that you do your best to use secret symbols to communicate to others that you’re a Christian - the fish, the cross, the radio station bumper sticker...
Others take Paul’s instructions to “make it your goal to live quietly, mind your own business, and work with your hands” as what it means to connect faith and work.
Be honest, have integrity, work hard, don’t call in sick and that’s how you connect faith and work.
There is nothing wrong with either of those to things, except they don’t capture a distinct Christian worldview.
There are lots of people who are not Christians that do those things.
We can’t just pick a few Bible verses out and say, “This is how I’m going to go about doing my work, or marriage, or childrearing, or leisure, or anything...” We don’t get to make that decision.
How do we develop a Christian worldview?
We always must begin in the exact same place for everything and it’s not just a Bible verse, it’s the Bible.
In other words, we must begin with a Theology.
Theology (proper) is the study of God.
The study of who God is and what He is like.
That’s a different approach from a “Best Practices” or “Self-Help” approach.
So you develop a Biblical worldview by first studying God through the Bible to see what He is like.
This sermon series is titled “The Gospel and Work”, why didn’t I title it, God and work or the Bible and work?
The reason we say, “The Gospel and ____” or “Gospel-Centered _____” is not because we can’t think of another way of saying it’s because the Gospel is a story and human beings function within stories.
That’s how God made us.
What are the various popular storylines about work?
Even though it was written in the early 80’s it’s still an anthem today.
“Everybody’s working for the weekend”
This is supporter by the few songs and stories with the manifesto of “Work hard, play hard.”
In fact in a study done by a biologist at Queen’s University in Canada, 40% of those who participated in the study were actually motivated by the work hard, play hard lifestyle.
James Truslow Adams coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America.
His American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”
Adams coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America.
His American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.
That dream (that really was stated in the founding documents of this country) has morphed “more or less” into a dream of attaining material goods and wealth.
Others, more stoic-ly, state that work really is just a means to an end - the end being “supporting my family” or “planning for my retirement.”
But we have to wonder, is that all that work is about?
What is the biblical vision of work?
Is it just survive?
Provide for your families?
Work to retire?
The Story of Work
The biblical vision begins with the story of a worker… and He is actually accomplishing two things at once.
He is Creating and Working, but He is also revealing the Design of Work
Who is the first worker and what is he doing?
Read -
What type of literature does this sound like?
It’s a story… “In the beginning”
What happened in the beginning?
“God created the heavens and the earth”
Now, we want to ask all kinds of questions, here, but we need to discipline ourselves to let the Word of God speak.
This is where we can get in to trouble; because the author is not interested in telling us the answers to the questions you want to know about the beginning.
The author is interested in telling us about the a Creator who created.
It’s important to note that in the true sense of the word, “Created” is only attributed to God in Scripture.
Because creating requires bringing forth something out of not raw material, but nothing.
After God created the heavens (skies above) and the earth (the ground below), what was it like?
“the earth was without form and void...”
this phrase is translated from a Hebrew rhyme “tohu vavohu.”
One Hebrew scholar interprets it, “Wild and waste.”
Now that initially sounds like it was bad, but you have to keep listening to the story.
Is the wilderness bad?
Not if you’re an animal.
But, yes if you’re a human…
The picture that Moses gives us is that of a skilled potter preparing the raw materials of clay and water in order to bring forth something beautiful and useful.
Now that he has created this space and material, what does God do?
He speaks light into existence, inspects it, declares it good (so again, he’s bringing raw material into existence) and then what does He do?
He begins to brings beauty and order to the wild and wasteland, he tells us that “God separated the light from the darkness.
And then God gives this separation of light from darkness a name.
He called the Light day, and the darkness he called Night.
God brought about beauty that can be seen in the sunrise just over the crest of the mountains and hills and beauty in the evening moonlight that doesn’t quite look the same any two nights.
The flicker of the stars and the cool respite of less light… it’s God’s Creative beauty.
And order as the sunrise reminds us of the new day, the sunset and moonlight tells us that it is night and time to rest.
It’s God’s Creative order.
We see the Creator repeating this again in the next few verses, bringing an expanse and separation to the waters; he is bringing beauty and order to the wild and wasteland.
And then in verses 9-10 we see again this Creation of land and this separation from land and sea, His inspection of it, and His declaration that it was good.
Beauty and order.
But in verse 11 we have something new happening.
Not just order and not just beauty, what do we see? “Let the earth sprout vegetation (beauty), plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to their kind (order), on the earth.”
Why is the Creator concerned with vegetation that bears residual fruits and vegetables?
If the story is in chronological order, (which the author seems to be indicating by the fact that he numbers the days) who are these fruits and vegetables for?
The author holds us in suspense...
Verses 14-19 speak more to the ordering and beautifying that the Creator is doing.
And the flow of the days of creation are very symmetrical; there is this dance of the Creator forming and then filling and repeating that action of forming what is formless and filling what is void.
Verse 20-22 We see the Creator calling for creatures to be made to come up out of the waters, and creatures to be flying above in the expanse of the heavens.
He’s bringing more order, more beauty, more potential out of the raw materials he created.
In verse 22 we see the Creator, blessing and instructing the birds in the sky and the fish of the sea to be fruitful and multiply and continue to replenish the sky and seas.
In verse 24 the earth is bringing forth living creatures (beautifully, orderly) - it’s interesting to me, but the Creator doesn’t bless and instruct the creatures that would walk on the ground to multiply and fill the earth.
Until verse 28, but those aren’t the same creatures as the ones in verse 24.
Maybe he tells us without saying?
Let’s pause for just a second and answer the question that was asked at the beginning: what is the biblical vision of work? or how did the Creator design work?
Read verse 31: “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”
Good in Hebrew is “tov” - so throughout and 2 we see God the Creator taking the “tohu vavohu” and bringing “tov.”
The Creator isn’t stoic in this project.
The Creator is filled with delight as He brings about order and beauty...
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