"Creator Spirit" Sermon Correction

This past Sunday (May 31st) in the second message in my series on Genesis I talked about the Spirit as the divine agent of beautification/glorification in the world.  At the end I also said that humanity is empowered by the Spirit to carry forward God's program for the glorification of the cosmos.  In explaining that there is an aesthetic dimension to our vocations I lamented the rise of "vocational training" as a substitute for "liberal arts" education.  I also criticized the modern American rhetoric that reduces the purpose of education to "getting a job."  I realized afterwards that what I said might have been misunderstood to imply that some vocations are inferior to others.  What I intended to say is that all vocations contribute toward the glorification of the world.  We don't work merely to "make money" or because everybody "needs a job."  Whatever we do contributes toward humanity's ongoing beautification project.  Each one does their part to bring form, order, and light to the world as well as to fill the world with new things.  God worked this way in the creation week through his Word and Spirit; now we also under the Lordship of the Son and empowered by the Spirit are the authorized agents of transformation in the world.