Work and the Great Story | CBB June 2025

What does the NBA Finals have to do with faith, work, and business? Believe it or not, more than you might think.

In this Christian Business Breakfast session, we continue our year-long journey of rethinking work through a biblical lens. After exploring Work and the Great Separation in April—how the sacred/secular divide has fractured our understanding of faith and work—this second gathering turns to Work and the Great Story. Because the truth is, business was never meant to be about our own little narratives of success, power, or self-preservation. Business belongs inside God’s larger story.

And that story—the meta-narrative of Scripture—isn’t just a collection of verses or a book of advice. It’s an epic that unfolds across four chapters: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.

• Creation: God designed humanity to work, cultivate, and build as image-bearers of a creative God. Business, commerce, and enterprise were always part of paradise.

• Fall: Sin distorted God’s design, introducing thorns, toil, greed, and brokenness into everyday work. But the work itself was not the curse—it was impacted by the curse.

• Redemption: Through Jesus’ finished work on the cross, everything is being reconciled to God—including our jobs, businesses, and marketplace activity. Work becomes worship again, a way to love our neighbor and reflect God’s kingdom.

• Restoration: God’s future is not an escape from the world but a renewed creation—where culture, creativity, and yes, even business—are redeemed to their original design. Our everyday work can be a preview of heaven, a taste of the restored kingdom breaking into the here and now.

This session reminds us of Copernicus, who revolutionized the way people saw the universe by proving the earth wasn’t the center. In the same way, the gospel reorients us: we are not the main characters of our own story. We are beloved members of God’s greater story—a cosmic love story He has been writing since the beginning of time. And when we see our work in orbit around that story, everything changes.

When we lead with integrity, when we create value that blesses others, when we serve customers and employees with Christ-like love, our businesses become more than profit centers. They become outposts of God’s kingdom. The marketplace is not a battlefield to survive—it is a garden to cultivate, a mission field to serve, and a story to join.

So here’s the challenge: Don’t just build your own story. Serve the Story. God’s story. The great story of redemption and restoration. Because business was never secular. It was never a necessary evil. It has always been part of God’s good design—and in redeemed hands, it can still be sacred.