JACKSON, Tenn. — Feb. 14, 2025 — Jason Myhre challenged the typical view of living out one鈥檚 faith in the workplace in his Feb. 11 address at 黑料论坛.
鈥淲e need to always be asking, with every decision we make, is this going to enhance the beauty and provision and flourishing of the world God made? Or is it going to diminish it?鈥� Myhre said.
Myhre was the keynote speaker for Union鈥檚 annual Faith in the Marketplace luncheon, which gives students and local business leaders an opportunity to learn about the integration of faith and the workplace.
Myhre is the executive director of the Eventide Center for Faith and Investing, an educational initiative of Eventide Asset Management which helps Christians understand and practice biblically faithful investing.
He also serves as a fellow of the Center of Faithful Business at Seattle Pacific University, and he facilitates the Capital Stewardship Hub of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology.
Using the narrative of the Bible, Myhre discussed how the creation, fall, redemption and new creation found in Scripture shape lives.
鈥淕od gives humanity a task, a job to do,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e were given the task of cultivating and keeping the garden estate of the great king.鈥�
This 鈥渕acro-purpose鈥� is work, Myhre said. After the fall, however, that work remained a gift but one with which people can sin.
鈥淭he fall did not change the fact that work was still a gift,鈥� he said. 鈥淏ut what it did do is it meant that work could either be directed toward God according to his original purposes, or we could rebel against God by making work serve our human selfish ends alone.鈥�
After God鈥檚 redemption of man through Jesus, Christians find restoration, Myhre said.
鈥淲e have the opportunity, as restored imaged bearers, to take up God鈥檚 original purposes for work again,鈥� he said. 鈥淭o refuse the fall. To embrace the good. And to be a vision of what it should look like.鈥�
Myhre then encouraged listeners to look to the future when there will be a new creation and consider what work will one day be.
In places of work, Myhre said, 鈥淕od wants to use you to be a taste of his redeeming grace鈥� and of the new world he is bringing about.
In conclusion, Myhre said his prayer for the audience was to 鈥渕ake God鈥檚 story the controlling narrative鈥� of their work and to 鈥渂e a foretaste of [God鈥檚] redeeming grace for the whole world.鈥�