Work as Worship Part II

Scriptures
Genesis 1:1-4, 26-27, Genesis 2:7-9, 15, Revelation 21:22-26, Revelation 22:1-5
Quotes and References
“Christians must revive a centuries-old view of humankind as made in the image of God, the eternal Craftsman, and of work as a source of fulfillment and blessing not as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God.”
“The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.” – Dorothy Sayers 
“Who formed the world of nature (which provides the raw material for physical sciences)?
Who formed the universe of human interactions (which is the raw material of politics, economics, sociology, and history)?  Who is the source of all harmony, form, and narrative pattern (which is the raw material for art?)  Who is the source of the human mind (which is the raw material for philosophy and psychology?) And who, moment by moment, maintains the connection between our minds and the world beyond our minds? God did, God does.” – Mark Noll
“The divorce of the sacred from the secular in church history has been disastrous. If we are Christians, everything we do, however ‘secular’ it may seem (like shopping, cooking, adding up figures in the office, etc.) is ‘religious’ in the sense that it is done in God’s presence and according to God’s will.” – John Stott
 
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