Bulletin 8.18.24

“People are hungry for vocational discipleship-even if they don’t know it yet.” Millions around the world are still seeking work that offers respect, safety, and enough income to support their household. Yet beyond this basic threshold, we all have an innate yearning to spend the majority of our time in productive activities that affirm our connection to God as image-bearers fulfilling our Creator’s purpose. We are made for the deep satisfaction of labor that restores that which is broken and unleashes our world’s potential for abundance, beauty, and wonder. Moreover, as God “has planted eternity in the human heart” (Eccl. 3:11 NLT), our souls long for a heavenly vocation: work that is eternally meaningful, challenging, collaborative, fruitful, and delightful, bringing glory to God in the light of His loving presence-isn’t that every worker’s dream?

-Tom Lutz & Heidi Unruh

Equipping Christians for Kingdom Purpose in Their Work

 (pg. 201)

Hebrews 10.19-25 

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. 

(Prayer)