David Kim Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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