Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: September 1, 2013 | 10:00am
Tomorrow morning, many of you will wake early to the sound of your alarm, and what you will be faced with is the inevitability which you have faced week in and week out, year in and year out: that work is an inevitability. In one way or another, we have to work. But there is one thing we can control about Mondays, and that is how will we view this very important, and very time-consuming aspect of life?
The question from our text this morning is not, “Do you have a job?” but “Will you give yourself to your kingdom assignment?” Is work something you suffer through, like a root canal? Or do you see your job as the place God has placed you for the majority of your adult life in order to reflect Christ in a different sphere? I love the quote from the 19th century Dutch journalist and politician Abraham Kuyper, who says there is not a single inch of this world in which God doesn’t say, “Mine.” Have you given God your work?
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