Called to Be Contributors
At EFCA Today, Dave Hubner lists four observations from the first chapters of Genesis that should shape our vocational theology.
- Work is good.
- Work is meaningful.
- Work is essential.
- Work is sacred.
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).