Every believer is called into ministry, not just those in vocational church roles. This calling extends to your daily work, wherever you find yourself. Your profession is a sacred platform to serve others and reflect God's character. Whether you are a builder, a teacher, or a homemaker, your labor is an act of worship. You are an ambassador for Christ, sent into your world to be salt and light. Your work matters to God and is a vital part of His kingdom purposes. [01:12:11]
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24 (ESV)
Reflection: As you consider your daily tasks this week, how might your perspective shift if you saw your work primarily as an act of service to Christ rather than just a job?
Work is not a result of the fall; it is a fundamental part of God's good design for humanity. God Himself is a worker, a creator, and we are made in His image. This means you have a God-given need to create, build, and contribute purposefully. Your desire for meaningful activity reflects the character of your Creator. Engaging in work is an essential part of living fully into who God made you to be. [01:15:09]
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
Reflection: In what ways does your current work allow you to express the creative nature of God that is within you?
God finds pleasure when you operate in the unique gifting and calling He has given you. He delights in seeing you fully alive, using the voice He has given you to speak into your sphere of influence. Just as Eric Liddell felt God's pleasure when he ran, you can experience that same joy. Your calling is not just about what you do, but about who you are becoming in Christ. [01:19:16]
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
Revelation 4:11 (ESV)
Reflection: What specific activity or responsibility in your life makes you feel most alive and connected to God’s purpose for you?
There is no division between the sacred and the secular for a follower of Christ. Every part of your life, from the mundane to the magnificent, can be done for God's glory. Your entire day is an opportunity to worship, from your morning routine to your evening commute. All of life is spiritual, and every moment is an invitation to partner with God. [01:22:23]
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 (ESV)
Reflection: What is one ordinary, daily task that you could begin to approach differently as an act of worship this week?
You have been anointed and empowered by the Holy Spirit for your unique calling. This anointing is for your work, your ministry, and your influence in the world. You are sent into your relationships, your workplace, and your community as Christ's representative. This commissioning is not a burden but a joyful privilege, backed by God's own strength and presence. [01:46:37]
And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Acts 1:8 (ESV)
Reflection: Where has God placed you this season, and what would it look like to step more fully into your role as His ambassador in that specific place?
Christ-centred worship opens into a missional vision that refuses to confine faith to Sunday. The church celebrates diverse culture and community, calls the gathered people to invite and disciple others for Easter, and insists on living the Great Commission by baptizing nations into Christ’s influence. Church life must be “inside out”: spiritual formation equips everyone to go into workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods as ambassadors and witnesses. A clergy/laity divide distorts that calling; true ministry drafts every believer into service, making each vocation a site of gospel action.
Work receives a theological rehabilitation: labor belongs to God’s character and reflects the Creator at work. Vocations count as worship when performed for the glory of God, whether in medicine, plumbing, parenting, teaching, or running a business. Unemployment wounds identity because humans were made to create; conversely, faithful work restores purpose and advances the kingdom. Vocation becomes voice—discovering the unique way each person contributes to society and to God’s pleasure. Finding that voice involves honest discernment, sometimes a change of role, and perseverance through hardship and opposition.
The community practices this theology through commissioning and anointing: a sacramental sending that affirms each person’s calling and empowers return to everyday places as ministers. Children’s prayers and leaders’ prayers participate in sending people with blessing, shalom, and boldness. The whole congregation receives a final blessing to go out into daily life renewed, anointed, and responsible for transforming the world with the good news of Jesus.
It doesn't work this way. Come on. We are all called to be in ministry. We are all called to be in service. Michael, we talked about this in Ephesians four that the leadership, the five fold ministry, are to equip the saints that you for works of ministry. That means that you are the real ministers, not even me. You are the real one that I get to play too. I'm a kind of a player coach. But at the same time, you, we are all in ministry. That's what the Bible says. Come on. It's so important that we understand this.
[01:11:46]
(34 seconds)
#AllCalledToServe
We our identity is securing Christ. It's not about this, but we do have a mission. Amen? We are sent into the world to be like Jesus and to bring his life into this world. So there is a sense of kingdom legacy. It's not what you accumulate in this world, in this life, but it's what you invest and generate for other people and how you love other people. We have to serve this world to be Jesus witnesses for Jesus and best in us of his kingdom. Amen?
[01:06:18]
(28 seconds)
#SentToServe
whole lives, everything we do, from getting up in the morning in the shower to a late at night, everything in between, between, it's all for the glory of God. Amen? So good. Everything we do is ministry. That's why one of our nine values in this church is your vocation is your ministry. I'm almost done. Quickly go. Do here. Vocation. Do you know the vocation? The word vocation comes from the Greek less lesson, I think. So lesson? Lesson here. Latin. Lesson from vocation. So vocation comes from vocation voice. See? I love this. Because the basic says, what is your voice in the world?
[01:22:23]
(40 seconds)
#FindYourVoice
and, God bless you. And, man, I really feel I really hope that tomorrow as you go to to your work, you know, to church. It's funny. You are the church. Absolutely. Tomorrow, when you go to church, it's not a Freudian slip. When you go to church tomorrow, you know that you will find a new zeal, zeal, a new anointing, a new happiness, a new pleasure that you are the minister of the gospel right there where you find yourself. And we love to hear the stories that come out of this. Is that alright?
[01:45:54]
(26 seconds)
#YouAreTheChurch
And when you find this, not only do do you find pleasure, but then God finds pleasure because I like this guy, this girl, because he's doing exactly what I made him to be. Yeah. There's choices. I get this. But he loves it when you find this. Come on. That business person who says, man, I wanna build businesses because I wanna have businesses that that's so integrity and the ways of God. Not like the world. I wanna reshape even maybe the whole industry. I wanna reshape this. God is pleasured with that. I think it's wonderful that people do this. Come on. It's just a joy of doing this because you are living then into the image of God.
[01:19:38]
(35 seconds)
#WorkWithIntegrity
so greater things, finishing today. Jesus has such a great vision. He says in Matthew 28, as you know, he said, go into the world and preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations, literally, to bapt ize nations into his life, not just people, nation, society, into the kingdom of God, into influence of God, that we will be his soul and his light in the community. And so nations can be you know, there's nations in the world that are mostly Christian. It's amazing what happens in those nations, but there are also a lot of nations who are not Christian at all. One of the nations is this particular nation.
[01:04:31]
(32 seconds)
#MakeDisciples
Do something because you can serve other people. Keep doing stuff because you are made to to create and to minister to other people. And work is not a curse. Again, I can't talk about this whole thing. It's a someone says that curse, you know, in the bible in Genesis, but it's the toil of us curse, but not work. God's always working. We're meant to work. We had a we had a commission even in Genesis to go and to multiply. It's all about working and creating and make this world a better place. Come on. All of us are called in this way, in this regard, in this sense. Wow. Wow. Wow. For God see, for God, work is a blessing.
[01:15:59]
(41 seconds)
#WorkIsBlessing
Keep going. Regain your voice. Have a holiday. Cry on somebody's shoulder, but keep going. If that's your voice, keep going because God will strengthen you, and people around you will strengthen you. There's no such thing as sacred or secular. Everything is spiritual. There's no such thing as clergy or laity. It's all we are all in the game of life fulfilling unique calling and work and places of influence in this world. Isn't that powerful, guys? Yeah. Very good. So we got twenty minutes.
[01:24:20]
(38 seconds)
#AllIsSpiritual
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