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CAREER & CALLING

CAREER & CALLING. WORK IS NOT A CURSE. God at Work Man at Work “Culture is what human beings make of the world.” - Ken Myers. WORK IS NOT A CURSE.

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CAREER & CALLING

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  1. CAREER & CALLING

  2. WORK IS NOT A CURSE • God at Work • Man at Work “Culture is what human beings make of the world.” - Ken Myers

  3. WORK IS NOT A CURSE “Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you will eat of it … Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you … By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground.” - Genesis 3:17-19

  4. Video: “Craftsman Made to Make” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuxdDvI_Dc

  5. WORK IS A COMMISSION • Contribution to Community • Loving Service “We urge you to excel still more [in love] and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you, so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.” - 1 Thess. 4:10-12

  6. WORK IS A COMMISSION • Contribution to Community • Loving Service “As slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will render service.” - Ephesians 6:6-7

  7. WORK IS A COMMISSION • Contribution to Community • Loving Service • With All We Are “It is not what man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.” – A.W. Tozer

  8. WORK IS A COMMISSION • Contribution to Community • Loving Service • With All We Are “The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter … should be telling him this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.” - Dorothy Sayers

  9. WORK IS A COMMISSION • Contribution to Community • Submission to Authority • Decoration of the Gospel “Urge bondslaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.” - Titus 2:9-10

  10. WORK’S COMPENSATION • Personal Satisfaction “To believe that a wise and good God is in charge of things implies that there is a fit between things that need doing and the person I am meant to be.” – Frederick Buechner

  11. WORK’S COMPENSATION • Personal Satisfaction • Monetary Payment • Divine Reward?

  12. CAREER & CALLING

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