Signpost: The Biblical Arc of Work

If you take the main themes or broad narrative arc of the Bible - Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration (New Creation) - do they make a difference to our work in the marketplace?

• How are we participants, through our work, in God’s creative work in the world?

• How does the fall impact our work and how might we respond?

• Where are the opportunities we have — today, this week — to be part of redemption and restoration as God continues to draw all things to Himself and make all things new?

In this short clip, John Terrill, shares how looking at our work through the lens of the Biblical Arc — where God is at work at every stage - can help us see how important our work is in God’s Kingdom.

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”

Colossians 1:15-20