Called to Work

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🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When we talk about work, it’s easy to jump right to the Fall and consider how work is frustrated by sin. But how does the pre-Fall creation narrative shape our understanding of vocation? And what does that mean for a post-Fall reality? In this episode of White Horse Inn, Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller are joined by special guest Walter Strickland in a new series examining the doctrine of vocation. This episode looks at the goodness inherent to work, what it looks like to image God in our vocations, and how the Sabbath shapes our approach to the work week.

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0:00.0	So I often think about this as God intentionally having left creation unfinished.
0:07.0	He started the process, but then he invites others into that process.
0:12.0	He created everything.
0:13.0	Then he left it to his Emmus Bears to name the animals.
0:16.0	I think God can have named the animals that he was perfectly capable of naming those animals that he already created from nothing.
0:22.0	But he left that to Adam a show of
0:25.2	Dominion over that creation so it sets us apart as being something other than
0:31.1	just an animal. It also makes us not God but having part of that authority that God has given as his image bears.
0:37.2	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:50.0	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the Whitehorse the
0:55.4	reformation came to the English-speaking world. Carrying on the tradition
1:00.1	welcome to the White Horse Inn.
1:09.0	When you open your Bible to the very first page, you have God calling.
1:11.0	The heavens and the earth are created by the word of his mouth. God
1:15.0	calls and the image here is of an ancient near eastern monarch. A great king, the
1:20.8	emperor over all the kings who is summoning even the lower kings into his
1:26.7	court, into his chamber. That's how God does stuff. He speaks. He calls things
1:32.4	into being that didn't exist, and he called us into being
1:36.0	and gave us callings, gave us vocations.
1:38.8	A lot of times we don't feel like our quote-unquote job is a calling is a vocation.
1:45.3	Yeah we believe we've been called to saving faith in Jesus Christ. We believe we've been
1:49.3	called to various places in the church, given spiritual gifts to help the body of Christ.
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