David Bostrom’s Get Dominion: You’ve Been Called to Fulfill a Mission is built on Genesis 1:28, where God tells humanity to fill the earth and have dominion over it. Bostrom’s argument is that this command was never cancelled, that it runs through Scripture, and that it finds its final form in the Great Commission.
The book moves from first principles to practical application, and each chapter ends with a short summary and reflection questions. Those are real, not invented, and they make it workable for a small group or a family discussion.
What “dominion” means here, and why the word matters
This is the thing to understand before you buy the book, because the word carries freight.
At one end, “dominion” or “the creation mandate” is ordinary Christian teaching: God made people to work, to build, to cultivate, and to be responsible for what they are given. Your job, your household, and your neighborhood are places where that plays out. Almost every Christian tradition holds some version of this.
At the other end sits a much more specific movement that reads Genesis 1:28 as a mandate for Christians to take control of civil institutions. That is a contested position with serious critics inside the church.
Bostrom lands on the first end. He ties dominion to the Great Commission, to discipleship, and to how a man serves where he already is. He is not writing a program for taking over anything. But readers who have encountered the word in its harder sense should know the term is doing work here, and should read it with their eyes open rather than assuming either meaning.
What it does well
The genuine contribution is refusing the split between spiritual life and ordinary life. Bostrom’s point is that a man’s work, his household, and his neighborhood are the assignment, not a holding pattern until he does something more clearly Christian on a weeknight. For a man who suspects his job is spiritually irrelevant, that reframing is worth something.
The end-of-chapter questions are the practical strength. This is genuinely usable in a group without buying a separate study guide.
What to weigh
This is a self-published title, produced through Outskirts Press. That is not a judgment on the content, and plenty of worthwhile books come out this way. It does mean it did not go through a publishing house’s editorial and theological review, and you are relying on the author alone. For a book making an argument from a single contested verse, that is worth knowing.
The previous version of this review also carried a meta description that described a completely different book, Find Your Purpose and Live It!. That has been corrected.
Who should read it
A man who has separated his faith from his work and wants that stitched back together. A small group that wants built-in discussion questions. Someone interested in how the creation mandate connects to the Great Commission.
Skip it if you want a heavily edited, academically grounded treatment, or if you are looking for practical community-outreach tactics rather than a theological frame.