1. A Vision for the Workplace
Colossians

2. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
For most of the time and most of the people we meet:
Who we are at work is who we are.

3. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Where does Work fit in our Faith?

4. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
So God created mankind in his own image,     in the image of God he created them;     male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” – Gen
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” – Gen 2.15

5. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” – Gen

6. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
“So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” – Gen 3.23 “Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.” – Gen 9.1

7. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
“We worked night and day, labouring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate.” – 2 Thess “Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.” – Eph 4.28

8. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Where does Work fit in our Faith?
Overseas Missionary Pastor Teacher Doctor Nurse Business
Holiness

9. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Where does Work fit in our Faith?
Carpenter Fruit Farmer Shepherd
Holiness

10. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
We are called to fulfil the 1st Great Commission
Where does Work fit in our Faith?
Where does Faith fit in our Work?
Witness that is
Prayerful
Personal
We are called to fulfil the 1st Great Commission

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12. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Where does Work fit in our Faith?
We are called to fulfil the 1st Great Commission
Where does Faith fit in our Work?
Witness that is
Prayerful
Personal
Prepared

13. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Where does Work fit in our Faith?
We are called to fulfil the 1st Great Commission
Where does Faith fit in our Work?
We are called to be Living Witnesses
Where does our job fit in our life?

14. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Thinking Work has nothing to do with God
Thinking God has nothing to do with Work
Thinking Work is God

15. A Vision for the Workplace Colossians 3.22-4.6
Where does Work fit in our Faith?
We are called to fulfil the 1st Great Commission
Where does Faith fit in our Work?
We are called to be Living Witnesses
Work is bigger than our current job
Where does our job fit in our life?