Monday, September 20, 2010

Jordan - Esther 4

Vocation.  Its a huge buzz word in our church right now.  "What is your vocation, your calling?"  Vocation and Eduction is a even the name of one of our 7 Program Units funded and run by churchwide.  As much as it is fun to talk about vocation, its a lot harder to define it for yourself.  I struggle wish it a lot these days.  When my campus pastor at Northeastern used to ask me why I wanted to be a software developer, I said that I wanted to make money to prove that I could give it away.  

And then I grew up.  

It is hard to give away money when your house is worth less than what you bought it for, you work for a giant bank whose stock went from $30 to $60 to $4 in the time you have worked there, and you have two kids who will probably cost a few houses to put through college.

Ok, so maybe giving money away wasn't my calling.  So what is my vocation?  Esther's falls into her lap in this chapter (in a horrible, biblical way).  I wonder if mine will be as obvious and whether I am living it out or I have yet to begin?

1 comment:

  1. I get to talk about money again this weekend. =) I'm wondering if a successful stewardship campaign wouldn't mirror our 3 fold approach right now: connecting, communicating, and creating a plan with finance that talks about both sides of the budget. You may have been placed on the call committee, stewardship, mutual ministry, and NCD for such a time as this...

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