The book Church Scattered was written to help every Christian merge their faith with their work.  Every Christian leader should understand that biblically we are to make a profit so we can then make a difference.

Making money is not the problem, it is the love of money that pulls us into an unsuccessful life. In I Timothy 6, “the rich are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share.”

To transition from a career to a calling requires you to understand work was created to be sacred not secular.  With three lost generations not coming to church but still going to work, it has become our primary mission field.

The first time the word work is mentioned in scripture it was God who was working in creation and when it saw all that He had done He said it was very good.  Then man was created and given work to do as well but he chose to trust himself more than God and nothing has been the same since.

The nation of Israel was chosen and given a work to do of representing God to the nations but again their own priorities caused them to fail in their work.  The segmentation of putting God in a building and separating work from faith was complete.

Then we see Jesus who came into the world to redeem and restore all that was lost during the Fall.  His work was clear and He explained it for all to hear, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work” (John 4:34).

At the end of His work on earth He prayed to the Father, “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do” (John 17:4).

Then it gets really exciting for us in that before He returned to the Father, He delegated His work of representing the Father to the world to every Christian, “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world” (John 17:15-18).

So today our work as Christians living in the church scattered is to represent the Father by living out our faith starting at home, then at work and finally in our neighborhoods.  We are in the process of restoring work to it’s sacred place so the Father can use it again in His grand redemptive plan for the nations.

Every day we get up with the indwelling Holy Spirit and we are to go to work.  Our calling is to know Him and make Him known to everyone we meet.  This verse sums up perfectly a biblical theology of work, “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Colossians 3:17).