The Power of Place

In the fourth century, John Chrysostom called the home, newly created in the marriage covenant, the "small church."7 In the exchanging of vows, the husband and the wife were anointed by the Spirit of God to be the established priesthood of this church-in-miniature, the redeemed Adam and Eve, building a particular place of worship on plane

Work is not some post-fall aberration. Work is a blessing (1:28). Work is a gift. And work is intrinsic to the human creature because it is intrinsic to the Creator himself.

God works, and it follows that because we are made in his image (Genesis 1:26-27), we work too.