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Explore the Essentials of Faith & Work
“Why does my work matter to God?”
Whether you're exploring faith and work for the first time or looking to deepen your understanding, these resources will help you discover God's purpose for work and see how your everyday contribution can help people, communities, and nations flourish.
Essential Vocabulary
The belief that God calls people to serve Him through their work in business, government, education, healthcare, the arts, and other professions, just as He calls others to roles such as preaching, missions, or pastoral ministry. Our work is an opportunity to serve others, create value, and participate in God's redemptive purposes for the world.
Freeing someone or something from bondage such as slavery, loss, or harm by paying a price. God saved humanity through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Because of this, people are freed from sin and death and brought back into a right relationship with God. In Colossians 1:20, Christ says he is bringing "all things" in heaven and on earth back into a right relationship with himself.
A business that seeks to serve God by creating products and services that meet real needs while doing business in ways that promote justice, human flourishing, and the restoration of people, communities, and creation.
The experience of life as God intended it to be where people, communities, and creation thrive through right relationships with God, ourselves, others, and the world around us. It reflects the biblical idea of shalom: wholeness, peace, purpose, and well-being in every area of life.
A Latin phrase meaning “Image of God.” It teaches that every person is created by God with inherent dignity, value, and purpose. Because we are made in God's image, we are called to create, cultivate, lead, and serve in ways that reflect His character and contribute to the flourishing of others.
A Hebrew word often translated as “peace,” but meaning much more. It describes life as God intended it: whole, healthy, just, and flourishing in our relationships with God, ourselves, others, and creation. In our workplaces and communities, shalom increases when people use their work to serve others, create value, promote justice, and help their communities thrive.
The responsibility to wisely manage and care for the resources, opportunities, talents, relationships, and influence that God has entrusted to us. In the marketplace, stewardship means using our work, skills, finances, and leadership in ways that honour God and benefit others.
A biblical framework for understanding the world: God created everything good (Creation), sin brought brokenness (Fall), Jesus came to redeem all things (Redemption), and God will one day restore all creation (Restoration). Through our daily work, we participate in God's ongoing work by serving others, solving problems, creating value, and helping the world reflect more of His original design.
The false division of life into “secular” and “sacred” categories, produced when biblical truth is filtered through a secular/materialistic worldview. Dualism treats some activities, like church ministry, as inherently holy and connected to God, and other activities, like business, law, politics, as merely secular: not necessarily bad, but disconnected from God’s will or purpose. The clearest example is the false separation between “Christian ministry” and “secular work.”
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The Story You Believe Is Shaping Your Work
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Work As Stewardship
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Dualism Explained
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Common Grace At Work
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Embrace Work As A Calling
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Business As A Kingdom Calling
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Topics
Discover Curated Collections
We've put together some key resources on certain topics for testimonies, teaching, and practical tools to speak to your particular stage, season, or struggle.
Redemptive Investing
Guidance for investors on stewarding, growing, and unlocking capital in African markets for redemptive impact.
Entrepreneur’s Toolkit
Lessons and stories on risk, discipline, and calling for entrepreneurs building businesses with purpose.
Principles in Practice
Integrating accountability, stewardship, wholeness, into your life and leadership.
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Series
Explore Topics That Matter
Dive deeper into the topics of accountability, calling, vocation, justice and what the Scriptures say about work through our selection of content series and carefully reviewed books that offer helpful, balanced perspectives.
Biblical Accountability for Business Leaders
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Business & Justice
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Working in a Uniquely Christian Way
Video Series
This series is for anyone who is trying to bridge the gap between their faith and their work. In nine episodes, Sibs shows how the basic plot of the Biblical narrative provides us with a practical framework for engaging redemptively in all of life – and in particular, in our work. The video sessions are a condensed version of the book by the same title, which also comes with application questions suitable for both personal study and group discussion.