Work and the Church Today
Part 1 in a series on Work and the Church Today
Have you every heard someone say, “Did you hear about Jim Smith? He quit his job at the bank to go into full time Christian service.”
I would guess many of us have actually said something very [...]
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Part 2 in a series on Work and the Church Today
We are confronted with a wall between personal faith and public work, here at the beginning of the 21st century. The wall has been raised by two distortions of the purpose [...]
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Part 3 in a series on Work and the Church Today
Harvard Business School psychologist Timothy Butler offers the following advice in an article about how vocation differs from career [...]
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Part 4 in a series on Work and the Church Today
The doctrine of vocation was developed with its greatest rigor by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the other reformers, as we have seen before. They believed that our first call [...]
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Part 5 in a series on Work and the Church Today
In order to understand the Biblical doctrine of work, we must clearly understand the differences between vocational calling and career, occupation, or job. Vocational calling is the call to God and to His service in the vocational [...]
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Part 6 in a series on Work and the Church Today
As we suggested in our last post, our careers, occupations and jobs may change throughout our lifetime. Our vocational calling, however, remains constant.
This can be confusing, especially as we look at the work of our [...]
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Part 7 in a series on Work and the Church Today
Work makes us interdependent. Work cultivates the resources of the material and human universe. Work is the form in which we make ourselves useful to others; civilization is the form in which others make themselves useful to [...]
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Part 8 in a series on Work and the Church Today
As we complete this series on the Biblical doctrine of Work and the Church Today, we discover a clue for how we can revive the neglected Biblical doctrine of work in MORE →