During this past year, members of Roosevelt participated in
a Vocational
Infusion Learning Community (VILC), along with others from more than ten
churches across the nation. During each meeting, we received training from pastors,
authors, and scholars who shared with us Biblical truths about how our entire
lives, particularly our work, are good things that have been given to us by God.
Being a Christian is much more than developing a personal relationship with God
and going to church on Sundays—God wants us to consider all of life to be all for Jesus.
This is the message we want to share with you.
Prior to our meetings, we read from these books below (and
more) to help us develop a richer theology of work, with the goal of bringing our
lessons learned to all people at Roosevelt Community Church, to our community,
and to the world around us.
Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work, Tom
Nelson
Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good,
Amy Sherman
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, Tim
Keller
Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, Steven
Garber
The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church's
Mission, Christopher J. H. Wright
One of our community groups recently went through a seven-week
video series entitled, “Our Great Exchange: Your Life, His Gifts, Our Purpose.”
If you’d like your group to get involved with this, contact Marc Giannone at
marc@eatoncambridge.com.
If you’d like to learn more, we encourage you to read these
books yourselves and view the video blogs on our website (you can view the
first one on Thursday (the link will be posted here). with many more to come… (Might
you be one of them we ask to interview?). We have copies of the books available
for you to borrow or you can purchase copies of your own. Also, when you go to work,
whether in a “secular” workplace, raising children, or volunteering, dedicate
your work and your life to the Lord who made you and gave you work to do.
Read God’s initial mandate to the “first family,” Adam and
Eve, when he created them and placed them in the Garden of Eden. Notice that
work was created before the fall, not after, so work should be considered a
blessing, not a curse.
“So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he
created them.
And God blessed them.
And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and
subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” … And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold, it was very good. Genesis 1: 27-28, 31
We pray that you will embrace your work with a new
perspective; consider Monday a gift from God, and give your work to Him. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for
the Lord and not for men. Colossians 3:23
Your Roosevelt VILC representatives
Vermon Pierre
Ginger Korljan
Bob Korljan
Marc Giannone
Megan Rose
Cliff David
Cliff David
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