GYC 2009: unASHAMED

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

John Chung, Chelsy Jourdan, and Sebastien Braxton: Cubicles and Christ

Sebastien Braxton

Agents of Change

Reaching Here by Going There

Using Your Profession to Change the World

Chelsy Schauer

Transitioning to the Spiritual

The Word in the Workplace

John Chung

Practicals, Testimonies, Questions, and Answers

Heavenly Father, we'd like to thank you for the privilege again to gather about the feet of Jesus.

We've come not to listen to the words of a man, but we've come to hear from God.

We ask that you would teach us, Lord, according to your will.

That you would provide the wisdom by the power of your Holy Spirit that is needed to teach the things that are true, that are right, and that can help show us how to impact the world with our professions.

This is our prayer and we ask it in Jesus' name.

Okay, so we left off with this biblical worldview.

I think this is, yeah, that was our last slide.

And so, just by recap, because I don't believe all of you were here for the first 2 sessions.

So just by recap, this is pretty much where we built from.

We saw that there was an increasing interest ever since the 1930s in merging God with the workplace.

Then we saw that this dichotomy, that God was separate from the work, and that work all of a sudden became this word we call secular, was a Greek concept going back to dualism and duality.

This started off with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Thales, and Homer.

We saw that that now in the 5th century was transferred over through Augustine.

He wanted to merge Greek thought in a Christian framework.

So he created this concept of dualism, which is where we get the concept of this immortality of the soul, anthropological dualism, etc.

So your soul is different from your body, that you are not your body.

And so that there was this disintegration of these components that make up a human being.

Now that was further developed by Thomas Aquinas.

And Thomas Aquinas, he took it to another level And he said he calls it grace and nature and that the things that are higher are grace and the things that are nature Are things that are lower there there they're considered base and he said nature are things that require no revelation to engage in and So he said that you know as naturally as like a bird flies, it doesn't require any like revelation.

But we saw that work doesn't fit that profile, yes?

Because we saw that God actually has a specific work for us to do.

And He expects us to put all of our hearts into that work, yes?

So as a result of that, this whole concept that work requires no revelation, it doesn't work.

And so we looked at this concept of integration and the fact that work is worship to God and the Hebrew word in the Old Testament for work is avodah.

And we saw that in avodah, this word for work and worship in the Old Testament, and that God views work as worship.

So now we had to begin to change our thinking about what we consider our work to be in the eyes of God.

So when you go to work and sit at your cubicle, it is actually worship to God.

And based upon how you conduct your work, this is the kind of offering you're leaving at the altar.

So we concluded, right, with Cain and Abel, we looked at that Cain's offering was excellent, right?

So the question that lingers in your or My mind is when we go to work, what is God asking for?

Because many of us may walk away like Cain and we're like, Lord, how come my job doesn't have all this meaning?

How come my job isn't filled with all this sense of purpose and I'm impacting the world around me.

And God may look at you and say, if you do not well shall you not be accepted.

As he asked Cain, why is your countenance falling?

Are we doing the things that We know God expects and requires of us.

So now beginning from there, we launched off into something different.

He said, now how does this integration take place?

And we saw that this destroys the Christian's inner peace, that they're secular, and then they're sacred work.

And I'll just kind of briefly go back to 1 of these statements.

We looked at a thing so we saw 1 of the greatest hindrances to the Christians internal peace is the common habit of dividing our lives into 2 areas the sacred and the secular But this state of affairs is wholly unnecessary.

We have gotten ourselves on the horns of a dilemma, but the dilemma is not real.

Because we misunderstand that Work is worship.

You are always in worship as a Christian.

And listen to me carefully with this, friends.

The church's ultimate purpose is worship.

Missions is not the ultimate purpose of the church.

The ultimate purpose of the Church is worship.

Because people are not worshiping God, that's why we go out and spread The message.

So because if everyone, you go up to Africa, you go to Papua New Guinea, you show up in New York on the streets and people out there having Bible studies and breaking down the 2300 day prophecy, do you feel like you need to execute a mission over there?

When you get on the subway and everyone turns to each other and says, hey, have you heard about Jesus?

Like, I was just about to ask you the same question.

Yeah, man, I go to the 7th, oh you go to 7th and 8th?

But when you show up in certain countries and in certain cultures, You find people committing circumcisions on young girls.

You find people offering up their children or virgins to appease gods.

You find people walking up thousands of steps on the cathedral to pay for their sins.

You find people walking through the streets of Manila with needles stuck into their flesh and every time they walk, every needle comes in at the same time to maximize the pain.

So because true worship does not exist, This is why missions exist.

And once all the world is separated from that, right?

He takes us to heaven and what will we do?

You think work will be separate from worship?

No wonder the world thinks heaven is going to be a boring place.

But let me just answer that and then move on.

Something powerful, I encourage you to read the last few chapters of the book, Education.

But in the last chapter of the book, Education, We're reminded in the Spirit of Prophecy, she says, that what you are on earth is what you shall be in heaven.

Now that's the last chapter, and I'll follow from the first chapter of the book.

True education prepares the student for the joy of service in this life, and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come.

So when you put these 2 concepts together, what you are on earth is what you shall be in heaven.

Series

John Chung, Chelsy Jourdan, and Sebastien Braxton: Cubicles and Christ

Using Your Profession to Change the World

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

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1h

Ron Clouzet ~ A Voice Behind You: How To Know God's Will For Your Life

Suspended Judgment and Other Great Habits

1h

Richard O'Ffill - God the Comforter: the Holy Spirit's Role in Your Life

More than Meets the Eye: Take it or Leave It

55m

Biblical Leadership

Biblical Leadership Part 1

1h

Abused: Bruised but Not Broken

Beyond Me

57m

Ellen White? Why Should I Care?

04 Was Ellen White a Plagiarist?

54m

Jay Gallimore and Paul Ratsara - The Heart of a Servant: Models of Biblical Leadership

The Heart of a Servant, Part 4

57m

Ellen White? Why Should I Care?

01 Is Ellen White Even Biblical?

1h

The Great Controversies: Relativism's Beauty and Fundamentalism's Beast

On What Basis: The Beginning of Controversy

1h

How to Study the Bible

02 Contemplating the Glory of God

1h 8m

Learning How to Learn Faith

05 What Moses, Elijah, and Paul Had in Common

45m

The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Sabbath School

The Life of Sabbath School

58m

Sound Doctrine