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Integral, Not Incidental

Reflections on the debilitating dualism that disconnects faith from work.
By Steve Garber / 10.08.2021

Mostly, we believe that vocation is incidental, not integral, to the mission of God. Why? What happened? What can be done?

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Most of life is pretty autobiographical. When we take the time to poke around a bit, asking a good question, and then another, we begin to hear more about who someone is, why someone is, and we begin to know more about the life that is theirs, of what has mattered to them and not mattered to them — and this is true for everyone everywhere. For most of my life I have been drawn into the que

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"We should all still be learning from John Stott, who famously made this argument in 'Christian Mission in the Modern World.' With his richly wrought biblical and theological study of the word “mission,” he concluded that if we understand missiology and anthropology rightly — what did Christ come to do in the world? — we must first of all repent of our dualism and rethink what we teach about vocation, so central it is to the mission of God."

Steve Garber

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This story is from Common Good issue 07.
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