Vocation

“Jesus poured out his love for us so that we might live in him and show his love to others—even at work. God cares about the work we do and the way we do it.” - IFWE

“As Christians, we know that the time and circumstances of our birth were not arbitrarily selected or the product of random chance. We worship a God who, before our birth, knew us in the womb and took the time to know each of us intimately.” CToday

Dallas Seminary: In this episode, Dr. Darrell L. Bock and Tom Nelson discuss work and the pastorate, focusing on the church’s relationship to the business world.

“God works in and through vocation, but he does so by calling human beings to work in their vocations.” PowerBlog

Vocational researchers examining “chaos theory” tend to emphasize not the consistent, orderly nature of career patterns, but rather the importance of initial conditions and the impact of seemingly random perturbations on career development, that somewhat disrupt the ultimate trajectory of individual careers.

“…my wife chose a rare and counter-cultural vocation. She chose a vocation that was once very respectful but is now viewed with some shame.”

“Far too many of us have been conformed to the pattern of this world, not transformed by the renewing of our minds.”