Top Highlights

• How could something as mundane and ordinary as a job change everything for Dave? I would argue it’s because what we do is central to our humanness.
• The core question of this book, driving every page forward, is, What does it mean to be human? Put another way, Why do we exist? What are we here for? What’s our meaning? Our purpose? Is there any?
• Why did God make humanity? “So that they may rule.” In Hebrew, the original language, it’s even clearer. The text can be translated, “God made human in order to rule.”8 You and I were created to rule over the earth. That’s our meaning, our purpose — it’s why we exist.
• In Genesis’s vision of humanness, we don’t work to live; we live to work. It flat out says we were created to rule — to make something of God’s world.
• There’s a nasty rumor floating around the church right now, and it sounds something like this: It’s who you are that matters, not what you do. Really? Where do the Scriptures teach that?