Genesis 1: Life Together, Again - Part 2: Participating in God’s Creative Activity

8.15 [Sermon Series] Jesse Thorson delivers Part Two of Genesis 1: Life Together, Again - “Participating in God’s Creative Activity”

 

Genesis 1 has a lot to say about how God creates, and it tells us that God intends for humans to participate in God’s creative activity. 

 

Jesse Thorson - Work or stewardship is anything that keeps the chaos of the cosmos at bay while providing for the mutual flourishing of humans and other forms of life on planet earth. God created a universe with dangers and risks, to be sure, but these dangers and risks are also the

conditions for the possibility of depth, beauty, richness and creativity... God didn’t finish naming all of his creatures, he brings them to Adam… If we are to recognize the gravity of our human vocation – that God has called us to participate in his creative activity – perhaps we would approach and engage with the natural world a little differently.