Fitted for Work
Celebrating the power of vocational calling
If nothing else, we in the EFCA are a gospel people.
We firmly believe that the gospel speaks to all of life. Time and again we’ve heard the gospel do that speaking—in our own lives and in the lives of those we lead in our churches. And the hearing gives us great joy.
That’s why we long for an even greater breaking-through of the gospel in our everyday lives. Not just on Sunday, when we’re together, but Monday through Saturday too.
The brothers and sisters seated among us during a worship service have entire other lives they live out each week—lives we often do not see. They carpool to cubicles or corner offices; they hunch over computers on kitchen counters or check iPads before driving to sales calls; they wake up toddlers, don hard hats or stethoscopes, or stand before fidgety students in classrooms.
They work.
And that ability to work—to create, to heal, to bring order to this world—is a gift from God, is a reflection of God Himself. This issue of EFCA Today speaks directly to our pastors about the stewardship of their congregants’ vocational calling.
Thank you, pastor, for reminding me of the workplace calling that God has placed on my life. Thank you for honoring the Holy Spirit you see at work as I live out that calling every day.
Fitted for Work
WE FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THE GOSPEL SPEAKS TO ALL OF LIFE. Time and again we’ve heard the gospel do that speaking—in our own lives and in the lives of those we lead in our churches. And the hearing gives us great joy.
That’s why we long for an even greater breaking-through of the gospel in our everyday lives. Not just on Sunday, when we’re together, but Monday through Saturday too.
The brothers and sisters seated among us during a worship service have entire other lives they live out each week—lives we often do not see. They carpool to cubicles or corner offices; they hunch over computers on kitchen counters or check iPads before driving to sales calls; they wake up toddlers, don hard hats or stethoscopes, or stand before fidgety students in classrooms.
They work.
And that ability to work—to create, to heal, to bring order to this world—is a gift from God, is a reflection of God Himself. This issue of EFCA Today speaks directly to our pastors about the stewardship of their congregants’ vocational calling.
Thank you, pastor, for reminding me of the workplace calling that God has placed on my life. Thank you for honoring the Holy Spirit you see at work as I live out that calling every day.