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Violinist

Born on May 24, 1963, David Kim is an accomplished violinist known for his exceptional talent and profound understanding of music. His musical career is marked by numerous achievements and recognition.

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“Every heart without Christ is a mission field; Every heart with Christ is a missionary by vocation.”

Heart Christ Fields Missions Missionary Vocation

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“One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.”

Ifs Doe Hours Fundamentals Waking Premises

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“If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.”

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“When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.”

People Way Firsts Sometimes Purpose First Time Encouragement Robust

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“People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.”

People Needs Vision Inspired Scripture New Vision

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“For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.”

People Reason Various Relate

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“The Bible reminds people that the whole of Scriptures addresses the whole of our lives, including our work. We need to be reminded of this every time we open the Bible, so that we experience the hope and power of the gospel in our work every day.”

People Needs Whole Our Lives Including Scripture Addresses

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“The often-surprising truth for many people is that we all integrate faith into our work, but most of the time we're completely unaware of what faith underlies our attitudes and responses to our work.”

People Attitude Response Surprising Integrating

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“Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.”

Paid Indispensable

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“All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.”

Expectations Flow Assumption Work Flow

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“Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this faith commitment is the belief it's okay to do mediocre work so that in your free time you can enjoy your true passions.”

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“There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to work than just a paycheck. This is unfortunately a very common view which I believe accounts in part for the statistic that approximately 70% of people are disengaged at work. Think about the loss of meaning and productivity and the staggering economic implications of that statistic.”

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“If you think your work is ultimately about a paycheck, then that will affect the quality of your work as well as the quality of your own life.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Quality Paychecks

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“We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.”

Humans Purpose Human Beings Deeper Assumption

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“We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.”

May Soul Dying Paychecks

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“On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.”

Kind Purpose Sides Greater Calling Flip Flourishing Paychecks

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“The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.”

Way Wells Views Empowering Interaction

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“The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.”

People Moving Impact Profound Satisfaction Productivity

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“The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.”

World Way Greater Impact Hopefully Our World Flourishing

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“Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.”

World Our World Invites Innovative Entirety New Work

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“When God created the universe, this world beautifully and gloriously revealed his unfathomable being.”

World Universe This World Unfathomable

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“As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.”

Way Humans Human Beings Identity

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“Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.”

Humanity Our Lives Identity Source Weight Divorced Vacuums Havoc

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“When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.”

Trying Values Security Anxiety

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“When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they were attacking us. This response shows how instead of taking criticism in ways that help us in our work, we become easily defensive and negative.”

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“The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.”

Christ Identity Expression Source

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“When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day.”

Thinking World Might Today Structure Complexity Our World Day To Day Scope Renewal World Today Interconnectedness

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“Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.”

Political Influence Economic Impact Structure Billions Sweeping

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“When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God.”

People Greater Economic Policy Glory Structure Access Productivity Release Our Society Host Glory Of God Flourishing

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“Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world.”

World Order Changed Structure Intention Connected Fruitfulness

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“When we think about our work it deals with our motivations, our desires, our sense of security, purpose, and status. Our work deals with a whole host of relationships. Work impacts the flourishing of individuals, communities, and nations.”

Thinking Whole Desire Purpose Motivation Individual Nations Community Deals Security Impact Working It Host Flourishing

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“So much is wrapped up in our work and each book of the Bible points to Christ and the good news of what he's done that impacts the whole of our lives and the whole of our world. When our eyes are opened to see how each book of the Bible points us to the gospel, the relevance to our work and the need for this good news to enter into our work becomes increasingly evident.”

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“One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from our modern world today. Many established realities we encounter daily, like non-profit and for-profit corporations, did not exist in the ancient world.”

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“The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.”

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“I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.”

Christian Church Raised Encounters Revelations Genesis Storyline

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“Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.”

Stories Christian Narrative Collections

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“One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.”

Stories Teaching Unique Aspect

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“If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.”

People Ifs Giving Made Technology Internet Grateful Access Signals

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“The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.”

Missionary Fulfilled Spares Spare Time Great Commission

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About the Author

Born: May 24, 1963
Known for: Violinist
Quotes: 39

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