Your Life, Your Calling, and Your Work: Part 5 Nehemiah

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Your Life, Your Calling, and Your Work
Part 5NehemiahLet Your Work Transform You
Nehemiah 21-9
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Gods World Split into 2 Parts (Unbiblical)
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worthy, everlasting work
Spiritual Things related to
spiritual, eternal God in heaven (pastor,
missionary, direct church-related work, etc)
mundane, temporal, unworthy work
Secular Home, work, business, marketplace,
trades, money, government, sex, etc
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Gods World no longer Split into Two
Worthy, everlasting work
Kingdom

• Direct church-related work by missionaries,
  ministers, pastors, evangelists, etc.
• Home, school, health services, business,
  marketplace, the trades, the arts, sports,
  government, labor, sex, money, etc.

Kingdom
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Your Calling is Your Whole Life
Personal Contemplative
Church Servanthood
Family First Neighbor
Neighborhood Salt and Light
Rest in Christ
Occupational Work
Civic/Political Justice
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NehemiahLet Your Work Transform You Nehemiah
21-9

• Transform Your Work Environment for Christ
• The nations will walk by its light, and the
  kings of the earth will bring their splendor into
  it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for
  there will be no night there. The glory and honor
  of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing
  impure will ever enter it. Rev.2124-5

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NehemiahLet Your Work Transform You Nehemiah
21-9

• Transform Your Work Environment for Christ
• Create and shape.
• Build community (relationships)
• Clash with the powers of evil.

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NehemiahLet Your Work Transform You Nehemiah
21-9

• Transform Your Work Environment for Christ
• 2. Allow Your Work Environment to Transform You

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Stage 1 Life-Changing Awareness of God
Stage 6 Transformed into Love
Stage 2 Discipleship (Learning)
Stages of Faith
Stage 3 The Active Life (Serving)
Stage 5 Journey Outward (From my inner life)
Stage 4 Journey Inward
adapted from Janet Hagberg/ Robert Guelich
THE WALL
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NehemiahLet Your Work Transform You Nehemiah
21-9

• Transform Your Work Environment for Christ
• 2. Allow Your Work Environment to Transform You

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Your Calling is Your Whole Life
Personal Contemplative
Church Servanthood
Family First Neighbor
Neighborhood Salt and Light
Rest in Christ
Occupational Work
Civic/Political Justice