**ReFrame Episode 3 - Creation & Fall — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Explores how the biblical story of Creation and Fall reframes Christian identity, purpose, and culture in everyday life.

## Key Takeaways

- Christian faith shapes all aspects of life, not just Sunday worship.
- The biblical story provides a foundational identity and purpose for believers.
- God created the cosmos with intention and order, and humans are made in His image.
- There is a call to integrate faith with work and culture as co-creators with God.
- Despite the Fall, restoration and redemption are promised through God’s Spirit.

## What the video covers

- The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reframes all human culture and daily life.
- Many Christians struggle to connect their faith with their everyday passions and work.
- The biblical narrative provides a comprehensive story with a beginning, middle, and end that explains human purpose.
- Personal testimony highlights the tension between entrepreneurship and Christian faith.
- Genesis 1 and 2 reveal God as the personal creator of the cosmos, contrasting with other worldviews.
- Creation is intentional and ordered, establishing humanity's role as image-bearers and caretakers.
- Humans are called to imitate God's creativity and governance over the earth.
- Culture is understood as everything humans make of the world, including arts and daily life.
- The Fall introduces brokenness but does not irrevocably corrupt the good creation.
- A future universal transformation through God's Spirit will restore humanity to its original purpose.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction: Jesus Christ and the Biblical Story
2. 03:02 Personal Journey: Faith and Entrepreneurship
3. 05:42 Beginning of the Biblical Narrative: Genesis 1 and 2
4. 08:51 Creation: Order from Chaos and God’s Intentionality
5. 12:06 Human Role in God’s Creation and Cultural Mandate
6. 15:00 Culture as Human Creativity and Flourishing
7. 18:41 The Fall, Brokenness, and Hope for Restoration

Answers

## Questions about this video

How does the video describe the relationship between faith and everyday life?

The video explains that many Christians struggle to see how their faith shapes everyday life beyond Sunday worship, emphasizing that faith should inform all aspects of identity, work, and culture.

What is the significance of Genesis 1 and 2 according to the video?

Genesis 1 and 2 are foundational as they reveal God as the personal creator of the cosmos, establish that the world has a beginning and an end, and define humanity’s purpose as made in God’s image to care for creation.

What tension does the video highlight regarding Christian faith and work?

The video highlights the tension many Christians feel between pursuing their passions or careers and following Christ, often seeing these as conflicting, but it encourages integrating faith with work as part of God’s calling.

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The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reframes everything, bringing hope, life, and meaning to every part of human culture. And yet, many of us can't see how our faith shapes much of everyday life and experience Sunday to Sunday, the in-between days. Where was Jesus? I didn't think about the whole of who I am, what I was passionate about, and how God uniquely made me. What are God's purposes for us? What does it mean to be made in the image of God? How do we live in the world? Could it be that God wants to make us more awesome? He is holding all things together, and he is reconciling all things to himself. We're experiencing how the biblical story reframes us. We live out of our stories, so be located in the story, the biblical story in which God reveals himself, his character, and his life.

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in-between days where was Jesus I didn't think about the whole of Who I am what was I passionate about and how God uniquely made me what a God's purposes for us what does it mean to be made in

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We live in a world of competing stories that are constantly trying to shape our sense of who we are and how we should live. Rather than attempting to create our own identities, somehow we need to be located in the biblical narrative. How do we do this? The Bible is a big story that makes big claims. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that makes sense of all of life. We're in the middle of a story. It tells us why we're here and where we're going. Over the next five episodes, we're going to be exploring the biblical drama.

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story reframe osteo we live out of our stories so be located in the story the biblical story in which God reveals himself his character in his life [Music] we live in a world of competing stories that are constantly trying to shape our

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Like the disciples on the road, many Christians are familiar with this story, but they still struggle with a sense of connecting who they are with what God wants from them. I clearly knew that I wanted to be a businessman, although having become a Christian, interestingly, my faith made me question if being a businessman was compatible with being a Christian. He goes. Sarah is the CEO of Level Ground Trading, a direct Fairtrade company trading coffee, tea, and fruit from around the world. Originally from Colombia, he is now based in Victoria, Canada.

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makes big claims it has a beginning a middle and an end that makes sense of all of life we're in the middle of a story it tells us why we're here and where we're going over the next five

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Growing up, I felt that I had this entrepreneurial bug in me. It was very much there. I was very drawn by my family, uncles, and aunts who were very entrepreneurial. I would say that Colombia, in a nutshell, Colombian people are happy people, warm, friendly, gregarious, but also very industrious, eager. Graduated high school in Colombia, I moved to the States to study business before finally moving to Canada for work.

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knew that I wanted to be a businessman although having become a Christian interestingly my my faith made me question is being a businessman compatible with being with being a Christian he goes Sarah is the CEO of level ground trading a direct Fairtrade

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There is a huge conflict in those days in my life, having become a Christian at age 17, 18, and having this passion to serve God, but also as a result of coming from Colombia, a sensitivity for the poor, a feeling that poverty really should be eradicated. It's not a good thing. How can I be part of that? So all those things were, you know, struggling with all those things. How can I put together a life that allows me to be a good Christian in service, using my education and my burning desire to be an entrepreneur? Huge conflict. How do you do that? How do you put all those together?

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drawn by my family uncles and aunts who were very entrepreneurial I would say that Colombia in a nutshell Colombian people are happy people warm friendly gregarious but also very industrious eager graduated high school in Colombia I moved to the States to study business

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I used to go for runs, and my run would take me to the top of Mount Tommy, which is a mountain peak here in Victoria where you can see the ocean and the city, 360 degrees, absolutely breathtaking, beautiful. I would walk around the stones, the rocks up there, and pray, pray to God, ask him for wisdom, ask him to give me a purpose. What is it that God wants me to do with who I am, with the tools I have, with how he made me to be?

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from Colombia a sensitivity for the poor a feeling that poverty really should be eradicated it's it's not a good thing how can I be part of that so all those things were you know are struggling with all those

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There's got to be a reason why I'm here. What is it? That's what I struggled with. Where was Jesus Sunday to Sunday, the in-between days? And it was difficult to truly know that he was there. I was forced to make a choice. I thought either a choice of living for myself, so get a job, make money, or serve Jesus. This choice that many of us feel we have to make. It's as if our work, our gifts, and our passions are in conflict with our call to follow Christ. Why do we have this tension? What's missing?

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I used to go for runs and my run would take me to the top of Mount Tommy which is a mountain peak here in Victoria where you can see the ocean and the city 360 degrees absolutely breathtaking beautiful I would walk around the stones

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We need to go back to the beginning. All stories have a beginning. In the beginning of the Bible is critical. It frames the rest of the story. So what does Genesis tell us about who we are and what God's purposes are for us?

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there's got to be a reason why I'm here what is it that's what I struggled with where was Jesus Sunday to Sunday the in-between days and it was difficult to to truly know that he was there I was

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

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our passions are in conflict with our call to follow Christ why do we have this tension what's missing we need to go back to the beginning all stories have a beginning in the beginning of the Bible is critical it frames the rest of

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So where does our biblical narrative begin? Well, of course, with Genesis 1 and 2. It is a story not just about us but about the cosmos, the heavens and the earth. It is a story about life, the universe, and everything, the earth upon which we walk, but also the sky in which we see the stars and the planets. And Genesis claims, first of all, that this cosmos is a creation and not something else. In the beginning, someone created the world. So the world is not eternal, as it is in some Eastern religious traditions and also in Western thinkers like Aristotle. In Genesis, the cosmos has a beginning, and other biblical books assert that it has an end.

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of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said let there be light and there was light God saw the light was good and he separated the light from the darkness then God said let us make human beings

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We find ourselves indeed in a story, right in the middle of one. And like all stories, there is an author. God created the heavens and the earth. Plato's or thoughts of ultimate reality in impersonal terms, so did Aristotle, so did classical Hinduism and Buddhism. But in Genesis 1, a personal Almighty God created the heavens and the earth. That's a particular point in time, and that is why there is order in the cosmos. That is why there is an order to this particular planet of ours, an order that enables life to flourish here. Planets don't need to possess this kind of order. No other planets in our solar system possess it, and possibly no planet anywhere in our universe. But here, there is order.

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narrative begin we'll of course with Genesis 1 and 2 is a story not just about us but about the cosmos the heavens and the earth is a story about life the universe and everything the earth upon which we walk but also the

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It wasn't always this way, says Genesis. Once the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. But then God brought order out of chaos in a creation pictured as lasting six days. Days one, two, three deal with the problem of the world being without form. A particular structure and shape is imposed upon it. It becomes habitable. Days four through six deal with the world's emptiness. Planets and stars are placed in the heavens, birds and sea creatures in the air and the seas, land creatures on the earth. The Creator makes things the way they are, providing both habitation and the inhabitants that make up our world.

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religious traditions and also in Western thinkers like Aristotle in Genesis the cosmos has a beginning and other biblical books assert that it has an end we find ourselves indeed in a story right in the middle of one and like all

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The world that thus emerges is not divine, says Genesis. It is made by God. It is not part of God. Elsewhere in the ancient Near East, people believe that there was significant continuity between the gods and the world, and this essentially led to worship of the world as divine. The sun and the moon were worshipped as gods, for example. But in Genesis, that's not so. The word of God goes out from God in Genesis 1, and creation happens outside of, not inside of God. And so the sun and the moon are not divine. They are simply lights that light up the earth.

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that's a particular point in time and that is why there is order in the cosmos that is why there is an order to this particular planets of ours an order that enables life to flourish here planets don't need to possess this

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This divesting of the world of divinity does not lead to devaluation of the world in biblical thinking. Quite the contrary. Even though the world is not divine, it is nevertheless a sacred place. Its sacredness is indicated in the way that the metaphor of the temple is used in Genesis 1 and 2. Ancient Near Eastern temples were often designed to reflect the structure of the whole cosmos. They were supposed to be mirror images of the universe and to signify a particular God's universal rule. So there was in the ancient world a very close connection between creation and temple.

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of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters but then God brought order out of chaos in a creation pictured as lasting six days days one two three deal with the problem of the world being without form a particular

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It's interesting to note then that in our Genesis creation account, the Hebrew word that is used for the sun and the moon as lights in the heavens is the Hebrew word Maor, which is almost always used elsewhere in the Old Testament of the sanctuary light in Israel's tabernacle in the wilderness. And when...

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earth the Creator makes things the way they are providing both habitation and the inhabitants that make up our world the world that thus emerges is not divine says Genesis it is made by God it is not part of God elsewhere in the

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ancient Near East people believe that there was significant continuity between the gods and the world and this that essentially - worship of the world as divine the Sun and the moon were worshipped as gods for example but in Genesis that's not so the Word of

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God goes out from God in Genesis 1 and creation happens outside of not inside of God and so the Sun in the moon are not divine they are simply lights that light up the earth this divesting of the world of

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divinity does not lead tho to devaluation of the world in biblical thinking quite the contrary even though the world is not divine it is nevertheless a sacred place its sacredness is indicated in the way that the metaphor of the temple is used in

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Genesis 1 and 2 ancient Near Eastern temples were often designed to reflect the structure of the whole cosmos they were supposed to be mirror images of the universe and to signify a particular God's universal rule so there was in the

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ancient world a very close connection between creation and temple it's interesting to note then that in our Genesis creation account the hebrew word that is used for the Sun and the moon as lights and the heavens is the Hebrew

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word Maor which is almost always used elsewhere in the Old Testament of the sanctuary light in Israel's Tabernacle in the wilderness and when we are told that God finished his work in creation on the seventh day the wording is very

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similar to Exodus chapter 40 where Moses likewise finished the work on the tabernacle and when we are told in Genesis of the gathering of the waters into one place to serve a useful purpose of seas perhaps we remember that in the

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precincts of the temple in Jerusalem there was an impressive molten sea a large basin with water in it and when we were told that the garden in Eden had its entrance in the east side well that's exactly where the entrance to the

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temple in Jerusalem was and finally what about the image of God that's placed in creation in Genesis doesn't that remind you of the way in which an image of the deity would have been placed in a temple in the ancient world upon its completion

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so what are we reading about in Genesis 1 and 2 we're reading an accounts of the building of a cosmic temple in which God can live and be present through his image and so although the world is certainly not divine in this story it is

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sacred like a temple [Music] you you [Music] one of the ways in which biblical followers have increasingly been able to understand the creation account is that it it seems to be based on the idea of building a temple that that is great

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temple that's being constructed in the language fits the language of temple construction from other literature's of that possessed period and if you if you build a temple the last thing you put in the temple is the image of the God who

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is to be worshipped this was the convention in in the ancient Near East and this account follows that convention Christians are able to say the world is good but we actually have a reason for thinking it's good and that is a good

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God out of his good character produce this world this is the biblical narrative from the very beginning saying the world is not haphazard it's not accidental it isn't the result of wars of the Gods which is what pagans often

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thought the ancients thought of the world is haphazard for their mythical reasons moderns who imbibe a thoroughly accidental view of the creation view creationist haphazard in exactly the same way an ancient pagan did but for different reasons and a Christian can

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still draw on that beautiful Genesis narrative and say no we think it's good because this has been produced with intention [Music] and that immediately gets us to the question of our own role in this story if that is indeed the big story what

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does that mean for our understanding of ourselves what does it mean for the question what am I supposed to do in the ancient world human beings generally were not held in high regard they had no great value in the myths of

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ancient Mesopotamia the cosmos comes into being along with the gods and for the benefit of the gods the cosmos is fundamentally where the gods live to put that in a different way the cosmos was for the gods the ancient cities built in

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various parts of the cosmos were also for the gods within each city he would have found a temple and guess what the temple was for the gods and within each temple you would have found this physical representation of deity the

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image of the God whose temple it was and the ongoing presence of that image was intrinsically bound up with the fertility the prosperity the peace and the justice of the city-state so how did you go about ensuring that fertility

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prosperity peace and justice actually happened well you had to keep the God happy you had to satisfy his needs and now and only now do human beings enter the picture in ancient Mesopotamia ancient Mesopotamian tax consistently tell us that human beings were created

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to do the work that was necessary for the continuing existence of the gods the work with which the gods themselves had become weary so what is a human being in that worldview what are we we are slave labor for the

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gods and not very well disguised form of slavery the humans ask in this story was to service the temples that lay at the center of the cosmos to make sure the gods remained happy if human beings got that right they would receive benefits

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in return well the book of Genesis does not tell that story does not share that narrative the god of whom the book of Genesis speaks does not have needs just like human beings he does not create human beings to meet his needs his

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presence in his cosmos temple does not depend on the satisfaction of those needs and the world was not created for the gods in the first place the world was created for creatures and those creatures do not need to feed the gods

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God blesses them says Genesis one with food and none of these creatures of God was created as a slave for the gods that includes human beings whose position in the biblical story is remarkably exalted position and one of the ways in which

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Genesis indicates that is precisely in moving them out of the role of being caretakers of a divine image in a temple out of that role and into the role of being the divine images in the temple so God created man in his own image in the

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image of God he created him male and female he created them these are the images of God who dwell in God's temple and that is why of course in biblical faith human beings are not supposed to worship images we are the images now if

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we don't exist as slave labor for the gods what is our destiny Genesis 1 says this let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and everything else ruling the created order is precisely what the gods of the

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ancient Near East were believed to do through their images it's also what the kings of the ancient Near East were believed to do but then Genesis chapter 1 it is the destiny of all human beings to rule over the cosmos we are all kings

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the centrality of human beings in God's story is further developed in Genesis 2 where we hear the language not of kingly ruling but of priestly mediation we are placed in God's gardens as Genesis 2 to work it and to take care of it literally

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to service and to keep it this is religious language it underlines the importance of and the sacred nature of our human task we are called to serve the earth that is to reverence it so it's respected we are called to keep the

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earth which is to conserve it so the Dominion or rule that is given to us by God is evidently not a lording over the rest of creation it is a sacrificial looking after creation we are kings and we are priests and we are

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called to imitate God in his own creativity in his own ruling over the cosmos in his own providential care for other creatures that is what we are here for just and self-sacrificial governance of the earth what is that involved

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it involves I think the maintenance of three sets of relationships and you see this also in Genesis 1 and 2 the maintenance of our relationship with God the primary one pictured in these chapters in terms of unbroken communion

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with God who walks in the garden and talks with his image bearers secondly our right relationships with our fellow human beings the Genesis idea of being naked and not ashamed and thirdly the idea of the right relationship that we

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ought to have with the rest of creation expressed in these chapters in the sense of kinship that there is between human beings and animals who both after all emerge from the ground from the same place when these relationships are all

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right biblical faith proposes then all of God's creation will know Shalom a hebrew word that means fullness of life wellbeing flourishing so our human vocation is to be kings and priests just like that under God bringing Shalom to

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God's temple cosmos [Music] we give creation a voice we can articulate what creation is we can express the nature of creation we can understand it and we can through that understanding through our art through our science through our technology

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through what we make we can take creation and not diminish it but but appreciate it give us given a voice lift it back up to God and in that in that very gesture lifting back up I might suggest for those of you in a liturgical

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traditionally the action of a priest in in lifting up the bread and wine of communion taking these gifts from the earth and from human-scale and offering them up to God in thankfulness and there's a sense in which all of human

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culture could be that kind of a offering a kind of priestly offering taking the goodness of creation appreciating it for what it is letting it be what it is shaping it into something even better or even richer and giving it back to God

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we're meant to act we're meant to create we're culture makers I think the best way to understand culture is everything that human beings make of the world so it includes not just the arts not just high culture not just low culture but it

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includes food it includes clothing includes buildings and includes cities it includes cameras and microphones and laptops all these things are the result of human beings creatively applying their ingenuity and curiosity to some aspect of the world and making something that then endures

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over time and is passed on from generation to generation but there's another side of culture making this just as important and that's what I would call culture keeping cultivating the world is not just about creating it's not just

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about innovation but it's also about preservation it's taking the good things that come to us from previous generations and indeed from the natural creativity of God the original goodness of creation and keeping it at least as good as it already is

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I think the biblical narrative really reframes our understanding of work from a purely instrumental view of work to what I would call a high calling view of work what I mean by a purely instrumental view of work is the notion

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that our work is simply a means to an end so either our work is simply a paycheck so that we can buy the things that our family needs or our work is simply a platform to tell people about

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Jesus and invite them to a Bible study our work is in fact accomplishing you know those things but the biblical narrative helps us to understand that work itself has an inherent purpose not just an instrumental purpose the work

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itself matters God cares about lawyers but he cares about law he cares about engineers but he cares about engineering he cares about artists but he cares about art so the work itself really matters what is the goal of all this all this

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human activity of cultivating and creating I think that the biblical word for it would be the glory of God which we use a lot but not often we don't often define the best definition I've come to is it's it's the magnificence of

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true being it's the full unfolding the glory of anything or any person is the full unfolding and flourishing of who they are or what that thing is the glory of God is meant to fill the earth it's meant to fill every space and the

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amazing thing about God the Creator God revealed in the Bible is that this God is just as concerned about the small and the seemingly humble as this God is about the great and the majestic the Bible in Genesis 1 and 2 gives us

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God's original vision for life but what about the brokenness of the world to sin in the fall negate God's purposes for all of life what's the best way of understanding what Christians typically refer to as the fall I think the best

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way of understanding it is probably this the Genesis 3 describes the diminishment of Shalom in the midst of alienation and dysfunction in creation Genesis 3 describes the breakdown of all the good relationships I've just described it tells us that human beings are no longer

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right with God and consequently they are at war with each other and consequently they are not able to function properly as kings and priests in the world and because of all this dysfunction Shalom diminishes human beings we're told become alienated from

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God they try to grasp equality with God by becoming autonomous moral beings inventing themselves human beings are now also alienated from each other they're created to be one flesh naked but not ashamed but now the man and the

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woman in this story are at odds with each other and they hide from each other that's the point of the fig leaves having hidden from God they hide from each other they blame each other for their predicament they wrestle with each

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other for power and the trouble spreads out through Genesis 4 all the way through the remaining early chapters of Genesis as the infection if you like spreads outwards and more than that human beings are now alienated from the

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nonhuman creation in Genesis 9 the animals flee in terror from human beings in Genesis 3 the ground will not cooperate with them anymore human work becomes hard labor which ceases only when we return to the dust from which

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we can write relationships get broken things don't work as they should does that mean that the world has now a row irrevocably changed does it mean that a good world has become bad we need to be careful I think at this point certainly

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moral evil has entered the world and certainly evil has damaged the world but biblical faith never gives up on the belief that the good creator who designed this good world is still involved in blessing it God is still

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involved in caring for it and from a biblical point of view the world remains fundamentally a good place even though evil has worked its way in the heavens declare the glory of God proclaims Psalm 19 and they do so now in

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this world that we know about there is still Shalom even though it has been diminished by evil it's very important to recognize that truth given the prevalence of world views including quasi Christian world views that tend towards a very negative view of the

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material world but in biblical thinking the world is not a problem to be overcome it is not a mistake it does not trap human beings where we were never meant to be and where we do not truly belong the world is not a

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place of shadows and illusions that only dimly reflect a real world somewhere else there are problems that arise within God's world certainly but the world itself is not a problem to be overcome and as to the problems that do

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need to be overcome well the great news is this that God Himself is working to overcome them we are not on our own God Himself is working to redeem his world to save it to remove the evil that

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has spoiled it to some extent God Himself is working to restore and to transform all those broken relationships I just mentioned and so when the biblical prophets look ahead to the end of the biblical story and they speak

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about a new a level of awareness of sin a new experience of cleansing from sin they have tremendous confidence in this God's ability to deliver on that they look forward to a time when God who has never abandoned this world and gone

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somewhere else when that God will pour out his spirit on all flesh a transformation that is universal which is radical goes to the very roots of who we are and restores to us what those folks first possessed in the garden

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intimate knowledge of God the prophets also speak not just about the transformation of our relationship with God but also about the transformation of human society the restoration of community and they speak about the transformation of creation itself the

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wolf will lie down with the lamb the leopard will lie down with the goat in a new world order a new natural order and new heavens and a new earth and this means for us when we ask the question

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Who am I and what should I do it turns out there are biblically two callings to vocations and not just one we are called first of all to get right with God and to get right with each other so that we

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can fulfill our creation mandate so that we can be the Kings and the priests that we were called to be and created to be and then secondly we are called to work along with God in the redemption of the

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world and that involves a profession dick calling of course proclaiming the truth drawing people back into Shalom [Music] the Bible presents this extraordinary vision of what it means to be a human person as Christians we are called to

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recover God's original purpose for Humanity and what was good as he redeems the world well let's face it for many of us the experience was a divided life on the one hand we have our spiritual life church the Bible evangelism and then on

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the other we have everything else our work leisure community the two don't seem to relate so why do we have this divide between our faith and the rest of us one of our problems at the gospel is the wrong starting place I think our

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problem often in the of angélica world is we just go back to fall and we say you know we sinned we fell and we need a Redemption so what we miss on that is creation which was God's ultimate intent

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one of the most important things for a contemporary Christian to realize is that because the earth is the Lord's and everything in it is true everywhere we step is sacred there is no basis in any of the New Testament in any scripture

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for saying that there are some callings in the world that are higher than others everybody is called to do the work of the Lord and that doesn't mean being being preachers or ministers or Bible teachers it means changing diapers

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tending gardens doing doing business they're bad ways to ten gardens are bad ways to change diapers they're bad ways to do business but potentially all of those are working alone I think what happens is once once we push back that

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that sacred secular divide it opens up the opportunity for asking a really practical question which is how does my work relate to God's work in the world and so we begin to excavate the scriptures and we find out well God is

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active in providing for all the needs of his creatures and the needs of his creation so we recognize no the work I'm doing as a truck driver as a farmer as a pharmacist as a scientist it's it's about participating

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with God and providing the the things that all of us need and then the Bible also tells us that God is actively working in the world to renew all things well if I'm a if I work for a waste

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management factory and I'm basically taking trash and I'm figuring out how to recycle it into a useable good I'm participating in that renewal if I'm an artist and I'm taking the raw materials of of creation and I'm redesigning them

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and fashioning them into something for human flourishing I'm participating in that and so once we realize God really does care about our work that's part of the all things of his lordship then we can begin to think very specifically

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about our particular callings and how they relate to these ways that God is at work in the world [Music] back in 1990 who goes Sarah couldn't see how his faith related to his gifting with business his heart for the poor and

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his passionate Colombian heritage during this time ago whence his seminar for Christian business people and suddenly realized that God created him with all sorts of gifts and talents and all of this was part of God's purposes to me it

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was huge light bulbs going on and it was a seminal moment it was the fact that now I could use my gifts to serve Jesus number-crunching spreadsheets to serve Jesus absolutely my vision of the Christian life became bigger we got

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started up level ground with his two partners level ground Incorporated his vision for integrating business social justice and his Colombian bricks a level ground trading we import coffee directly from the coffee farmers bring the green beans here in a shipping container

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across the sea in our plant we roast coffee we package it and we ship it to customers across Canada in the US the mission is to trade fairly indirectly with small-scale farmers producers in developing countries the vision is by

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doing trade we hope to alleviate poverty we're about trading fairly doing it directly working with marginalised producers lots of our staff aren't Christians we've got people of many different faith and belief spectrums on staff and I think it makes us a richer

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culture as a company but those of us who started the company are fairly overt in her faith and our desire to follow Christ in our day to day and so that what that means is that the stakeholders that we add value to our everyone in the

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supply chain everyone in our sphere of influence that means that it starts from the farmers who get paid the best possible price we can pay for their commodity coffee dried fruit the trading partners that have to get that coffee out of

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Africa and shipped to us we don't shaft them they need to be paid fairly for what they do this is valuable to us our employees like we really care for our people and we pay them well and we treat

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them well and we do other things to make sure their quality of life is good the other thing I love around does is amazing is this environmental stewardship that goes way beyond recycling we have no dumpster level ground

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we don't have garbage that goes to the dump and then of course there's customers they they need to feel that they have value what they they have to have value otherwise business doesn't exist thank I feel that the whole of my life my

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relationship with friends family church were work mates it's all it's all one there is no compensation in my life anymore like there once was brings tremendous freedom and joy Genesis tells us that God created a big world in which he created humanity in

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His image to be kings and priests to be culture makers and care for creation for me this is one of the most exciting things about the Bible the world is not an accident it may be fallen but that's

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why God is working to redeem it being a Christian is about recovering God's sense of identity and purpose for us and working with God as he restores creation so whoever we are and whatever we're doing that invites us to be restored as

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His image bearers sharing his life creativity and peace in a broken world [Music] [Music]

Topics: Christian faith biblical narrative Creation Fall Jesus Christ purpose identity culture Genesis Regent College

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