COURAGE AND CALLING. Four Vocational Categories. JORDAN ROWLAND Moody Bible Institute Foundations of Learning Professor Dr.

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1 JORDAN ROWLAND Moody Bible Institute Foundations of Learning Professor Dr. Carol Harding

2 Varied vocations. Valuable gifts. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter 4:10,11 ESV - What is grace? Why is grace so poorly defined? Why is grace so wonderfully essential? - Are any vocations better? Why not?

3 High View of Vocation The vocation of the church is to sustain many vocations - Neuhaus, R. 1 COURAGE What is Necessity? AND CALLING Living as one is meant to live. - Smith 2 God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives.. - Guinness, O 3 1 Richard John Neuhaus. Freedom For Ministry. Pg Gordon T. Smith. Courage and Calling. loc Os Guiness. The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. - Vocational integrity and diversity are essential to a healthy church. - Vocation diversity is a beautiful tapestry. - Necessity, understanding the fundamental foundation and formation of vocational dispensation. - Natural order and God s sovereign knowledge.

4 producing of goods and services, is good work, necessary work, and indeed, work that reflects the calling of God. 4 BUSINESS Reliance on the Marketplace. Human Flourishing. Godly Excellence Faith Witness 4 Gordon T. Smith. Courage and Calling. loc Rejoicing in the material world. - Business and commerce are a grace. Examples of devastating philosophy, and of flourishing philosophy. - What excellence says about God. - Giving, faith, integrity and passion. How good business is intrinsically worshipful.

5 but be transformed by the renewal of your mind Romans 12:2, ESV EDUCATION What is Knowledge? Why Science? Education and The Gospel. Education and Discipleship. - Why teach? Why learn? Why explore? Why cognition means education is essential. - Faith comes through hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Examples of education and reformation. - The pursuit of God is a not singularly mind or heart, the role of education in Christian faith.

6 Art needs no justification, 3 it fosters worship. It fosters our capacity for worship.4 5 Rookmaaker. 6 Smith. ARTS What is Worship? Where the Head Meets the Heart Integrity and Creativity. Bad art tells a lie. 7 Smith. 5Rookmaaker, Hans. Art Needs No Justification 6 Gordon T. Smith. Courage and Calling. loc Gordon T. Smith. Courage and Calling. loc The Biblical narrative and our understanding of God the author and creator. - The roles of the heart and mind in worship, where they meet in the alternate reality of God. - The integrity of the artist is essential in proclaiming truth in relation to experience. Corruption kills.

7 It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God. Acts 6:2 ESV PASTORING Essential Ministry. Double Honor. Under-Authority. Shepherding a Body - What the soul needs. Christ preached, and the P/PC ministry for all the body. - 1 Tim 5:17. Double Honor. Not only the esteem for the office, but for the essential ministry. Where all vocations support. - Christ s under-shepherds must walk after him. - Sustaining all the vocations of the body. Leadership, formation and motivation that enhance all work. Legalism and disorder kills vocational diversity. Graces fanned into flame proclaim then excellencies of Christ.

8 Works Cited 1 Richard John Neuhaus. Freedom For Ministry. San Francisco, Harper and Row Pg , 4, 6, 7. Gordon T Smith. Courage and Calling. Downer s Grove, Ill. Intervarsity Press. 3. Os Guinness. The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. H.R. Rookmaaker. Art Needs No Justification.(Downer s Grove, Illinois. Intervarsity Press. 1978