6-Week Faith + Work Course Feb-Mar 2025

This special offering of the 6-Week Course is our introductory level Faith + Work offering here at the Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles and will include one additional week on the Sabbath. This cross-vocational course will focus on biblically-based topics to gain insight concerning God's intention for our work.

Together we will explore what it means to integrate our faith and work in meaningful ways, challenge the idols and cultural narratives we face, and address the brokenness of our vocational worlds. We will be utilizing spiritual practices and group discussion in community.

WHEN:

• Wednesday nights, Feb 5 – Mar 19, 2025
• 7:00–8:30 PM PT

WHERE:

• Virtual on Zoom

ADMISSION:

• $75.00; includes course materials

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COURSE OUTLINE:

WEEK 1 - The Creation/Cultural Mandate and Work

• Welcome/introductions
• Introduce the need for exploring faith & work integration
• The disconnect in our “theology of life”; remove the sacred/secular divide

WEEK 2 – The Fall’s Effect on Work

• Considering The Fall’s effect on work

WEEK 3 – Redemption and Work

• Christ’s Work Redeems our Work

1. What we are saved “from”

2. The nature of Christ’s work

3. What we are saved “for”

WEEK 4 – Receiving our Calling for Life’s Work

• The Nature of “Calling”
• Exploring how God calls us and how that relates to our work
• Discerning our “Call”

WEEK 5 – Restoration and Work

• Visions of God's final restoration and why that changes how we view what we do today at work

WEEK 6 – Exilic Discipleship in the World of Work

• God’s call to love fallen creation and culture
• Promoting God’s Kingdom through our work in a pluralistic post-Christian society

WEEK 7 – Sabbath

• Enjoying God, His creation, and the fruits of our labor through sabbath rest

Host or Publisher Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles