Whatever You Do

November 12, 2023 | Josh Bayne

“There’s a nasty rumor floating around the church right now, and it sounds something like this:

It’s who you are that matters, not what you do... Really? Where do the scriptures teach that?”

-John Mark Comer, Garden City

Discussion Questions

Start Talking 

• What do you do for work?
  

• Do you feel like you have a good job?
  

• Do you enjoy your job and the people you work with?
  

• Do you feel successful in your work?
  

• Have you ever considered that where you work is also where you minister?
  

• Do you consider the way you work as a form of worship?
  

• Do you actively live out your faith in the workplace?
  

• What difference would it make if you started viewing your workplace as a mission field?

Read This

• Read Colossians 3:17
  

• What should we do in the name of the Lord Jesus?
  

• Who should we give thanks to in everything that we do?
  

• Read Genesis 1:26
  

• What does this verse say that mankind was made to do?
  

• Read Genesis 1:27
  

• In whose image was mankind made?
  

• Read Genesis 1:28
  

• In this verse, God gave mankind some specific things to do. What are they?
  

• Read Genesis 2:15
  

• What is our job description that is given in this verse?

What Now

• Humans are wired to basically seven things: Create, Build & Maintain, Justice, Compassion/Healing, Worship, Love, Learn. Which of these categories would your job or major fall under?
  

• Where do your talents, passion, and mission intersect? 
  

• What are you good at (talent)?
  

• What do you love (passion)?
  

• What does our world need (mission)?
  

• Has this message prompted you to think more deeply about your work and your mission? 
  

• How can we as a group pray for you as you seek God about these things?
  

Your place of work is the primary place you live out your faith.

Additional Series Resources

2023 Scripture Reading Plan

Book: Garden City by John Mark Comer

Book: The Practice of  the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence