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How Faith Shapes Career and Calling: Insights from Scripture

Explore the profound connection between faith and work through biblical insights. Discover how scripture informs your career and calling, encouraging a broad view of common grace and meaningful labor. Drawing on verses from Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Romans, and more, learn how faith provides a moral compass and ethical guidance. Understand the significance of viewing your work as a service to God, finding satisfaction and happiness in your toil. Embrace your gifts and navigate success and failure with a faithful heart.

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How Faith Shapes Career and Calling: Insights from Scripture

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  1. Career or Calling? Ronnie Norman

  2. Genesis 2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to take care of it.

  3. Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

  4. How Faith InformsYour Work • Your faith gives you a broad view of commongrace -- how God cares for the world through the meaningful  & varied work of men and women.

  5. How Faith InformsYour Work • Your faith gives you a broad view of commongrace -- how God cares for the world through the meaningful  & varied work of men and women. • Your faith helps you see and harness your gifts from God.

  6. www.liveyourcalling.com

  7. Romans 12 Try to have a sane estimate of your capabilitiesby the light of the faith that God has given to you.

  8. Ministry of preparation • Ministry of competence

  9. How Faith InformsYour Work • Your faith protects you from unhealthy responses to success, failure and boredom.

  10. Luke 12:15 “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

  11. Colossians 3:23-24 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

  12. How Faith InformsYour Work • Your faith protects you from unhealthy responses to success, failure and boredom. • Your faith gives you a moral compass and ethical guidance.

  13. Micah 6:8 God has shown you what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

  14. Matthew 7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

  15. “Four Way Test” • Is it the truth? • Is it fair for all concerned? • Will it build goodwill and better friendships? and • Will it be beneficial to all concerned?”

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