It’s one thing to say ‘we need to steward well.’ It’s another thing to do it, and to do it naturally. How do we become people who are wise givers, who love well? How can we counter the consumptive ways that are always working to shape us into consumptive people? How can we give…
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Pursuing Vocation Alone?
Guest Posting for J.R. Goudeau
This post was originally a guest post for Jessica Goudeau. It still sits over there, but I wanted to make sure I didn’t lose these words, and so I have the whole post below. ***** I am beyond excited to be posting over at Jessica’s place today. She has been such an inspiration, teacher and…
Stewarding Our Love
A social imaginary, as described in Desiring the Kingdom, is the myths and narratives, stories and understandings we tell ourselves that form how we view the world. A prevalent one that we have in our culture is ‘I deserve what I have because I worked hard for this.” “I have found that the poorer…
How Does Vocation Impact Our Places of Work?
What makes a business ‘Christian’? Is it merely slapping a Jesus label on it? ‘A place where Christ is modeled, not preached’? Isn’t that what we’re supposed to be doing all the time, anyway? Or is it a business that tries to align itself with kingdom values, even if the name Jesus isn’t front…
Is It Who You Are, Or Just What You Do?
We can’t have healthy, Jesus-based discussions on identity and vocation, roles and purposes, until we admit what it is that Jesus has really called us to do. There is a myth we cling to that blinds us to who we are: “People get their worth and identity from their job.” And the church, which…
What Does Christian Vocation Look Like?
“Therefore, restoring identity and recovering vocation must be the focus of a biblical understanding of human transformation.” (WWP) If our vocation is to be working for the kingdom by loving God and loving others, what exactly does that look like? What does it mean to love something, someone? What does it mean to love…
Being an Image of God
My goal for this series is to explore the ideas of identity and vocation and how they can apply to our lives. All of this discussion and the opinions coming out of it are held very loosely, but because these are such important topics, it’s worth wrestling with them a bit. For example, when…
Identity and Vocation, Defined
What is identity? What’s vocation? Why are they important? When you do figure out a definition, how does it affect your life? I’m going to spend the rest of the month digging into Identity and Vocation, and what it means for us. A lot of the ideas for this series come from Walking with…
Finding God in the Rituals
She said God is not in that church. They say they don’t understand the standing and sitting, the rote prayers, a service that is emotionless and meaningless. They say that God transforms through people, not ’empty religious rules and rituals’. And they built a church on that premise, and for many other reasons, I…