Sermon Series November 2nd to November 23rd
Monday Jesus
Each week we spend our time creatively making, fixing, growing, cleaning, teaching, selling, or serving up another vanilla latte to a favourite customer. Surely we’re doing this for more than just a paycheque. Our work is a gift from God. How many of us feel equipped, spiritually, for the challenges and opportunities of doing the work God has for us? This sermon series explores what the Bible has to say about our work, whether we’re dealing with the boss, or we are the boss, to finding God’s presence in the mundane tasks before us. We don’t just have a Sunday morning Jesus, but he goes with us into our Mondays, too. Welcome to a hopeful journey into a fruitful, fulfilling, life of work with Jesus leading the way.
Go Deeper: Resources
Our intention is to create or share resources to help people explore these topics in further depth. Here are a few resources you might find meaningful during this sermon series.
Does God Care About my Work? - What does faith have to do with your 9 to 5?
Whether you’re in a boardroom, classroom, job site, kitchen, or in between roles. Does God Care About My Work? is a space to explore the deep connection between vocation and spirituality. Over several weeks, we’ll ask big questions about meaning, calling, and how God shows up in our everyday work.
This small group led by Dan Morela, this group will challenge and encourage you to see your work as more than a job, it’s a place of purpose.
Sermon Audio Files
The Great Divide
What I’m naming here is the Great Divide, the Sacred/Secular divide we experience in our lives. We have Sunday Jesus, and forget that we also serve Monday Jesus. The Church will never live out the mission of Jesus if we do not emerge with a new imagination for Jesus in all parts of our lives, with each of us, in every place, in every task, and between us and every person.
The Sacred/Secular Divide is a foe of our faith. It cuts us off from looking for Jesus in our work, and in each other. So today we’re kicking off our new sermon series, Monday Jesus, with a look at this Sacred/Secular divide and begin to re-attach our sense of holiness in all that we do.
Is Work Good or Bad?
Our work and how we treat our daily tasks say a lot about what we think about God’s relationship to us. We do not work to earn God’s favour. That’s what slaves do. We’re not slaves to a cruel owner. We are made free in Christ. Even more, we are called sons and daughters, heirs to the Kingdom of God. We are members of God’s royal family so to speak. What does it mean? That we have a ticket to easy street? No, being a friend of Jesus may mean that at times we are called to this work even more earnestly. Or as that girl said, we now sweep under the mats, too.
Gathered and Scattered
Imagine if you’d never tasted salt, then tasted it on it’s own. You’d think, wow, what a strong flavour! Now imagine you were told that if you put that salt on some meat and veggies, they would taste amazing, we promise! You might think, no way! That strong flavour would overwhelm the dish! But we know that salt doesn’t kill the flavour, it makes it! CS Lewis said that this is what it’s like to have Jesus in us, and to allow Jesus to take over in all areas. We might think he’ll overwhelm us or take something away from us. No. CS Lewis says that his life makes ours. “[Food does] not show [its] real taste till you have added the salt.” CS Lewis.
Nov 23
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