On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.

Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God‘s image and that can have a profound impact on people’s productivity and work satisfaction.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they were attacking us. This response shows how instead of taking criticism in ways that help us in our work, we become easily defensive and negative.

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we’ll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing – work.

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don’t reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there’s a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

If there’s an Internet signal, people will always have access to God’s Word and for that I’m profoundly grateful for the technology and people who‘ve made this access to life-giving words possible.

The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we’re completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.

Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.