Our calling in work is not normally just to provide ourselves and our families with the necessities of life so that we can use the balance of our time as junior pastors. It is not that there is necessarily something amiss in teaching, lay ministry, lay evangelism, and the like. It is that we are not to neglect our calling in order to invade that of someone else.
1 Peter 3:15 says, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;”
A defense is a reaction, not a proaction. But the spirit of our times in the Church is that we are to be proactive in the propagation of the gospel. We are rather inculcated in the idea that we are a massive sales force for the gospel, plotting out what we call “witnessing opportunities,” somehow as if our whole life is not a witnessing opportunity.
Excerpts from "Realizing Our Vocational Calling"
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