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Vocation
Vocation and Honour: Understanding My Responsibility as an Employee
The Gospel in the Daily Grind
How do you find purpose in working when your daily work is filled with seemingly mundane tasks? This article explains six ways in which you can learn to relate Christ and the gospel to your work.
The Centrality of Everyday Work
How Can I Know What Job God Has for Me to Do in This World?
Discerning God’s Guidance to a Particular Kind of Work
Does God guide people to particular types of work? He does, by way of Bible study, prayer, Christian community and individual reflection. How do you discern the guidance of God toward a particular kind of work? This article offers three major considerations for discerning God’s vocational guidance: the needs of the world, your own skills and gifts, and your truest desires.
The Call to Belong to Christ and Participate in His Redemptive Work in the World
The Christian sense of vocation starts with the call to follow Christ. Added to this are the biblical callings to work and glorify Christ in all of life. These are foundational to the Christian view of work.
How Then Should We Work? Rediscovering the Biblical Doctrine of Work
To the Reformers all labour was accepted as a calling and performed as unto the Lord. This article maps the path that led the church to embrace the dualistic view of life and forget the implications of the priesthood of all believers. It shows that embracing the call to follow Christ is foundational to understand the theology of work. This is how the church can recover the biblical truth of vocation.
Calling
What about Bob?: The Meaning of Ministry in the Reformed Tradition
What does it mean to be involved in a ministry? This article shows that the modern definition of the word 'ministry' is sometimes inaccurate. The priesthood of believers should not be confused with the call to ministry, which is limited to the ministry of the word and the administration of sacraments.
The Vocations of Christians and the Ministry of the Church
What is the church called to do? In order to properly understand church ministry, a distinction must be drawn between Christian vocation and church ministry.