The Briefing: Vocation? What’s that?

In the last issue of the Briefing, we began a little quest to understand what God has to say about work. And, perhaps strangely, we ended up spending a whole article speaking about the creation mandate (God’s command to humanity to multiply, fill the earth and subdue it). Whether you found this helpful or frustrating will probably depend on two things. (1) Are you a big picture person or a details person? and (2) What were you expecting to hear?

In my life, many of the sermon series I’ve heard and the books that I have read about work have majored on the details. And so you might well have been expecting to spend time looking at Paul’s commands to slaves about serving their masters well. Things like.... Keep reading

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