2020 VISION Developing a Biblical Worldview 2020 VISION
20/20 VISION Developing a Biblical Worldview
20/20 VISION Biblical View of Work & Recreation
Divided Reality? Spiritual Private Christianit y Work Secula Public r Go d Scienc e Politics Work Sex Family
Basic Tenets of a Biblical Worldview Christ redeems God created Sin corrupted
The Bible on Work • Humans were made to work—to cultivate, provide, and protect.
When no bush of the field was yet in the land no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. Genesis 2: 5 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. Genesis 2: 15
The Bible on Work • Humans were made to work—to cultivate, provide, and protect. • Sin (and resulting brokenness) makes work painful and frustrating.
And to Adam he said, “…Cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. ” Genesis 3: 17 -19
The Bible on Work • Humans were made to work—to cultivate, provide, and protect. • Sin (and resulting brokenness) makes work painful and frustrating. • God designed rhythms of work and rest to keep man connected to Him.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, … For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20: 8 -11
The Bible on Work • Humans were made to work—to cultivate, provide, and protect. • Sin (and resulting brokenness) makes work painful and frustrating. • God designed rhythms of work and rest to keep man connected to Him. • In Christ, work is not just obedience, but a fulfillment of purpose.
But that is not the way you learned Christ! … to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4: 20, 23 -24 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Ephesians 4: 28
The Bible on Work • Humans were made to work—to cultivate, provide, and protect. • Sin (and resulting brokenness) makes work painful and frustrating. • God designed rhythms of work and rest to keep man connected to Him. • In Christ, work is not just obedience, but a fulfillment of purpose.
The Christian and Work • Purpose • Priority • Practice We glorify God by cultivating, producing, serving the world, and Work & rest find their enjoying it as He made proper place within a We ‘adorn the doctrine us to do. ordered, godly life. of Christ’ through hard work, integrity, selfless service, and joy.
20/20 VISION “If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. ”
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