Kingdom & Work
God reveals himself in the first pages of the Bible as a God who works. As Jesus says in John 5:17, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” Yet one of the effects of the Fall is that we experience multiple ways that we are estranged from work. Some of us over work, are performance driven, perfectionistic, workaholics, define our worth according to our jobs. Others underwork, struggle to keep a job, live just for a paycheck, are unemployed because of failures of courage, define our worth according to our lack of jobs or salary.
Our calling as Kingdom citizens entails bringing our work to God as part of our discipleship. We seek to be a community in which God’s grace and mercy is applied to our vocational lives, our work weeks—from the attitudes we have toward bosses and employees to how we understand our work in light of a theology that says “all of life is worship.” We seek healing in the ways that we misuse our work.
In addition, we believe that our calling to live as Kingdom citizens in this fallen place to help others find redemption in the area of vocation. To this end, we partner with Jobs for Life (http://www.jobsforlife.org/), a non-profit based in Raleigh that seeks to restore dignity to our fellow citizens by restoring their relationship to God and to work.
