The Cultural Mandate
Part 1 in a series on The Cultural MandateThe difference between barbarism and culture is, simply, work.
—Lester DeKoster
I have an odd collection: a business card from every job I have worked since college and it is a large stack. At last count I have worked [...]
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Part 2 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
In the opening chapter of Genesis we find God giving Man (male and female) a job description. It is called the “Cultural Mandate,” also sometimes called the “Creation Mandate”:
God blessed them and said to [...]
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Part 3 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
Yesterday, we talked about our job description given to us in the very beginning of Creation – the Cultural Mandate. It’s a call to steward creation, a call given not just to Adam and Eve but to us as well. This [...]
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Part 4 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
We have been talking about the Cultural Mandate found in Genesis 1:28,
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish [...]
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Part 5 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
When you tried to figure out what to do with your life, I bet you didn’t go to the book of Genesis for direction. But as we’ve been seeing in these past few posts on the Cultural Mandate, God’s first job description [...]
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Part 6 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
Is the Cultural Mandate still in place today? Why don’t we read about it in the New Testament? Was the Cultural Mandate negated by the Fall? These are some of the questions I am often asked when discussing the [...]
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Part 7 in a series on The Cultural Mandate
In Part 6 of this series on The Cultural Mandate, we saw the same Cultural Mandate which God gave Adam and Eve also calls 21st century Christians to partner with Him in His work. From the beginning, [...]
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