Round the Sphere Again: Vocation

Called to Be Contributors
At EFCA Today, Dave Hubner lists four observations from the first chapters of Genesis that should shape our vocational theology. 

1. Work is good.
2. Work is meaningful.
3. Work is essential.
4. Work is sacred.

Read the whole piece.

Not a Higher Calling
The abuse of “full-time Christian service”.  

It disturbs me that today that we don’t encourage our young people that employment is indeed a godly pursuit. A young man with $30,000 worth of student debt, instead of choosing to pay that debt down, stands up and asks his congregation for support to go on a short term missions trip.  We give it to him. Why do we let him think the “higher calling” is to stay in debt, ask for more money, and go on a missions trip?  Because it’s seen as full time service, which is viewed as just a little cut above the rest. 

(Kim at The Upward Call).