God and Vocation

How Faith Affects All We Do in Life

12. How Then Should We Work?

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1. The Big Picture
2. The
4. The 9. The Posture
of Work:
Rest
Idolatry
Goodness Recovering our 11. The
of Work:
of Work: Priesthood Presence
Betraying
Serving as and Place of
Priests and
Kings
our
Priesthood Good Rest: Priests
and Kings

Work
5. The
Futility
Works Now and
Not Yet
of Work:
10. The 12. How Then Should
3. The Goal Cursed in
Power of We Work?
of Work: our
Kingship Work:
Perfecting 13. Final Discussion
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the Kingdom
of God Works our Kingship and Review

14. Final Exam

6. Discussion and Review

How Faith Affects All We DoExam

7. Midterm in Life
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8. The Redemption of Work:
Jesus as our Priest and King

2. The
4. The 9. The Posture
of Work:
Rest
Idolatry
Goodness Recovering our 11. The
of Work:
of Work: Priesthood Presence
Betraying
Serving as and Place of
Priests and
Kings
our
Priesthood Good Rest: Priests
and Kings

Work
5. The
Futility
Works Now and
Not Yet
of Work:
Cursed in 10. The
3. The Goal
our Power of
of Work:
Kingship Work:
Perfecting
Recovering
the Kingdom
of God Works our Kingship
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Story
Story
Story Jesus will return
Story in the way that
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God creates all he left.
things, with Adam and Eve
humans as his disobey and are THE RESURRECTION At that time
royal priests. expelled from his people will
the Garden. be resurrected,
the earth will
Significance Next verse, be renewed,
same as the evil will be
God is the first: Cain, judged.
creator, Flood, Tower of Significance
separate from Babel, ISRAEL. Significance
but active in
creation. God’s
Significance
creation
Creation is Disobedience purposes
good. and exile. are fully
realized.
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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

Eph 2.4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved
us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ
—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with
him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might
show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2.8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own
doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Eph 2.10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
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Heb 13:15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to
God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 16 Do not neglect to
do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

From being
Grateful Recipients of God’s Goodness
to being

Faithful Agents of God’s Goodness

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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

How then do we add (this royal extension of)

goodness to vocational discernment?
“The Three Questions You Need to
Ask Yourself ”
1. What are you deeply passionate about?
2. What are you genetically encoded for
— what activities do you feel just “made
to do”?
3. What makes economic sense — what
Intersection of Passion, can you make a living at?
Talent, and Opportunity
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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

How then do we add (this royal extension of)

goodness to vocational discernment?
“The Three Questions You Need to
Ask Yourself ”
1. What are you deeply passionate about?
2. What are you genetically encoded for
— what activities do you feel just “made
to do”?
3. What makes economic sense — what
Intersection of Passion, can you make a living at?
Talent, and Opportunity
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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

How then do we add (this royal extension of)

goodness to vocational discernment?
“The Three Questions You Need to
Ask Yourself ”
1. What are you deeply passionate about?
2. What are you genetically encoded for
WHAT IS MISSING HERE? — what activities do you feel just “made
to do”?
3. What makes economic sense — what
Intersection of Passion,
Talent, and Opportunity
GOODNESS!
can you make a living at?
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Good Works Priestly Sacrifices Royal Beneficence Sabbath Fulfillment

How then do we add (this royal extension of)

goodness to vocational discernment?
Does this do it?
“The place God calls you to is the
place where your deep gladness and
the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Frederic Buechner
GOODNESS!
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How then do we add (this royal extension of)

goodness to vocational discernment?
What questions might we ask about a potential job?
1. What is the product or service? Is it good for people? For the environment?
2. What is the work environment or culture? Is it good for people, including
those under your supervision? Does it create opportunity and fruitfulness for others?
3. What are the work practices? Do they have integrity? Do they honor your
vendors, competitors, obligations to g’ment?
4. Will you be in a position to change the
culture or is it likely to change you? GOODNESS!
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Resisting Idolatry Confronting Futility

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Resisting Idolatry Confronting Futility

“Is there a sphere of human activity, one might even say of human existence, that does not
need to be justified by inclusion in a five-year plan and its technical organization? Is there such
a thing or not?” Joseph Pieper, Leisure:The Basis of Culture, p. 38.

“The practical problem involved might be stated thus: Is it possible, from now on, to maintain
and defend, or even to recognize, the right and claims of leisure, in face of the claims of ‘total
labor’ that are invading every sphere of life? Leisure, it must be remembered, is not a Sunday
afternoon idyll, but the preserve of freedom, of education and culture, and of that
undiminished humanity which views the world as a whole. In other words, is it going to be
possible to save men from becoming officials and functionaries and ‘workers’ to the exclusion
of all else?” Pieper, p. 53.

“But if celebration is the core of leisure, then leisure can only be made possible and justifiable
on the same basis as the celebration of a festival. That basis is divine worship.” Pieper, 65.
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Resisting Idolatry Confronting Futility

What if, through tragedy, incapacity, or lack of opportunity, God’s goodness no

longer seems to come to us or through us? Are we no longer priests offering
sacrifices of praise and good works or kings extending his goodness to others?

Rom 8:28 God works all things together for good for those
who love him and are called according to his purpose.
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ON HIS BLINDNESS (John Milton)

WHEN I consider how my light is spent   
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E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,   
And that one Talent which is death to hide,   
Resisting Idolatry Confronting Futility
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent 
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throughtherewith my Maker,
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or lack of present        
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prevent for good for those
who love him and are called according to his purpose.
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need   
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best 
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best, his State 
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed   
And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest:   
They also serve who only stand and wait.
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THE CROSS

Resisting Idolatry Confronting Futility

What if, through tragedy, incapacity, or lack of opportunity, God’s goodness no

longer seems to come to us or through us? Are we no longer priests offering
sacrifices of praise and good works or kings extending his goodness to others?

Rom 8:28 God works all things together for good for those
who love him and are called according to his purpose.
How can we use our position and power to confront futility for the sake of others?

Only after the jussive [“let there be”] has given way to the cohortative [“let us
make”] and a group of image bearers have said “Let us make” together will we
then use the imperative, and even then we will use hard-edged commands like
“Make it so” quite sparingly. Mostly we will say “Be fruitful and multiply” to the
people we employ and empower for the work.” Fill the space with our early
vision with your own creativity.” Andy Crouch, Playing God, p. 35.
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8. The Redemption of Work:
Jesus as our Priest and King

2. The
4. The 9. The Posture
of Work:
Rest
Idolatry
Goodness Recovering our 11. The
of Work:
of Work: Priesthood Presence
Betraying
Serving as and Place of
Priests and
Kings
our
Priesthood Good Rest: Priests
and Kings

Work
5. The
Futility
Works Now and
Not Yet
of Work:
Cursed in 10. The
3. The Goal
our Power of
of Work:
Kingship Work:
Perfecting
Recovering
the Kingdom
of God Works our Kingship

How Faith Affects All We Do in Life