Cursed Soil & Kingdom Builders
A
is a set of practices, habits, and
rhythms that help us follow the
of Jesus.
Simply put, calling is how you are uniquely fulfilling the
in your life to
.
- the lack of order and predictability and the gradual decline into disorder.
When God introduces himself in the first sentence of the Bible, we are first to understand him as
.
When we think of creation, we often think about
. When the original audience read this story, they thought about
and
.
Genesis 1:26-27
The idea of an
should make you think of a
.
To “
” means to bring under control for the
of
and blessing.
Do we see our work in terms of the
it produces or do we see it in terms of what we
?
Adam means
and Eve means
.
= painful struggle.
= futility.
of your brow = hopelessness and exhaustion.
= it will end in your death.
A disciple is simply a
.
As
we are tasked with teaching people to
all that God has commanded us.
We can live beyond the curse of
and
in the here and now as we partner with Jesus and his mission to build God’s kingdom.
Main Point
First, I think our identity as
is an invitation to
.
Second, I believe our identity as kingdom builders means we must be working in line with what God has defined as
.
Are we doing work that actually
life and promotes
for all mankind or arew we simply building our own
?
Finally, we realize that our call is ultimately a call to
.
Who’s
are you
?
