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Summary Of Chapter 10 By Timothy Keller

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In chapters nine and ten, Timothy Keller starts to discuss how we are to view the world and how it relates to the gospels. Stories as Keller calls them in order to make sense of how human life should be, what has caused it to go wrong, and what can be done to make human life right again. Keller states one of the key areas we live out this story is in our workplaces. We live out the Story we believe when we are faced with challenges, successes, frustrations, and ethical choices. Keller reveals that there are two ways that we go about fixing the problem of being severed relationally from God due to our sin nature from the beginning. The two choices we have to make are either going to fall into the biblical worldview or the secular worldview. …show more content…

Keller reviews five areas of vocations; medicine, business, journalism, higher education, and the arts. He goes through these areas to drive his point on how anyone in any vocation can be in danger of letting the position become our salvation and answer to the world's problems. Chapter ten invites us to change the way we view work. Earlier Keller explored how God's provision can be found through the work of the people; he then challenges us to think of how worldly non believers posses more gifts, and talents than some Christians. Keller explains this as God's common grace among all mankind. God reveals his creation to every person on this earth, He allows good to happen even to people who would deny him if asked their faith; and yet Christians who call him lord continue to stumble. The result of common grace Keller wants us to grasp is that Christians will never be as good as our true worldview should make us, but also that non believers will never be as messed up as their worldview should make them (Keller, 197). Common grace is where the challenges can be found with the two lifestyles by creating

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