Work As Cultivation In Timothy Keller's 'Every Good Endeavor'

In Timothy Keller's Every Good Endeavor, we find in chapter three the meaning of work as cultivation. Work is a physical and mental process. It is also provision for the growing of the human race. Work as cultivation is a call to "fill the earth,” and not to just fill it with more people but to fill it by means of building up the human society. God made this our job. He called us to "rule and subdue” the earth. Ruling the earth should be seen as stewardship. God is the one that owns this world, but He called us to carry out His work by filling the earth and subduing the earth. The earth is undeveloped to an extent so that we may continue His work of "unfolding” the earth, extending it to it's potential.

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