"Love Made Me an Inventor": Nurturing Christian Vocation
Publication Date
2009
Publication
The Cresset
Document Type
Article
Abstract
When I was first asked to deliver this lecture, now about a year ago, the question I was asked to address was, “Is it possible to sustain a sense of Christian vocation in the contemporary world?” A year ago, that question, I think, had as much to do with a sense of the world in which we then lived, in which people saw themselves wanting to go to Wall Street or to go into vocations of law and medicine and business. We were asking if there was a place for Christian vocation in a world where everything seemed to be moving in the direction of these professions. A lot can change in a year, or even in the course of just a few months. The way I now would respond to this question is to say that it is not only possible, but it is more urgent than ever—for the sake of the culture in which we live and sustaining fulfilling and flourishing human life and flourishing human communities—not only that Christian vocation be articulated and lived, but that there also be vibrant Christian institutions capable of being bearers of that tradition, incubators of leadership, and laboratories of learning.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Gregory, ""Love Made Me an Inventor": Nurturing Christian Vocation" (2009). Public Intellectual Writing. 71.
https://repository.belmont.edu/gregoryjones_public/71
