Message: “Neighbor Is a Verb” from Ross Stackhouse

From the very beginning, literally, God worked and rested. And the supreme act of God’s work from which God rested? Creating humans in the image of God to do good, purposeful work like God and with God–and also to rest like God and with God. To be human is to struggle to live purposefully, especially as it relates to “work.” But maybe how we see work is our problem to begin with. That’s why we’re kicking off this series about work…and rest. For the next several weeks, we’re going to reflect on questions like: What’s our work for in the first place? What is “calling” and what does it have to do with work? What do we mean by “rest” and what does God mean by “rest”? Finally, what does it look like to work well in life and rest well in life–in ways that are purposeful, balanced, and deeply connected to Jesus and his vision for life?

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From Series: "Work and Life: the Purposeful, Balanced Life"

From the beginning, God creates humankind to work with God and like God and to rest with God and like God. A purposeful, balanced life is found in this. But it's easy to get out of sorts with work and rest. We do things like fuse our work with our identity. We miss out on the kind of deep, soulful rest that the Bible illustrates and Jesus embodied. In this series, we want to help people make their way back to working and resting with God and like God.