Packer on Vocation
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Here are some brief Q&A's with J. I. Packer about work and vocation:
How do we offer our everyday work to God?
What does God say about vocation?
How can Christians view their daily work as worship?
How do we offer our everyday work to God?
What does God say about vocation?
How can Christians view their daily work as worship?
posted by JT at Tuesday, March 11, 2008
4 Comments:
Thanks for the helpful post. I just wanted to point out that the first and third videos are the same. Your blog is always a help to me; thanks for this ministry.
Wow, this is unbelievable! I pressed "play" on all three videos at about the same time. Dr. Packer says "Paul is the Walrus" at the end of each one with about 15 seconds left. That seals it for me.
Consider career and vocation, based on the etymology of the words:
Career comes to English from 15th century French, carere, which was a circular racetrack. We get the English word "careen" from the same root word. You can go very fast in a career, there may be cheering fans, and it can be exhilirating, but you don't necessarily go very far.
In contrast, the English word vocation comes from the Latin vocare, which means voice or calling. Pursue your calling.
Remember that corporations are legal entities without a soul. They can only offer environments for careers, they cannot create a calling. A lot of corporations today are desperately trying to inject soul (they might call it "desirable corporate culture") into their corpus.
Be bold, be gentle!
Glenn, neat observation; a lexophile after my own heart.
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