Tag: Colossians 3
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How the Church Fails Businesspeople – 5
(This is a cross-post with a post done earlier today at Jesus Creed.) (Minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits, June 19, 2023.) Real estate people say real estate is about three things: location, location, location. Well, I suspect integrating business and faith is also about three things: vocation, vocation, vocation. “Vocation” comes from the Latin…
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Imago Dei and the Material World (Part 4)
I closed my last post with the question, "How then does our work in this time of the Kingdom "already but not yet" have an eschatological impact?" The first way our work has an eschatological impact is through our daily work. Through our work, we are formed and transformed. We come into the world with…
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Household: New Testament Household Codes
The use of fictive family in the New Testament relates to five themes: identity, unity, mission, inheritance, and affection. If fully embraced by the community, these themes would have grounded the community identity in God and unified them in mission as they demonstrated new creation values toward each other, anticipating the consummation of the new…
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O.J. Simpson and Virtue in the Marketplace (Part 2 of 2)
Yesterday I suggested that free market capitalism is very efficient at processing the information it receives. If we feed a value system like individualistic materialism into the system, then the results will reflect those values. If we feed virtuous values into the system, the results will reflect those virtues. Most would agree that individualistic materialism…