http://www.sellingamongwolves.com/blog/2006/12/01/your-vocation-can-truly-be-your-calling/ Michael Pink Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:15:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.sellingamongwolves.com/blog/2006/12/01/your-vocation-can-truly-be-your-calling/#comment-572 Bart Cannon Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sellingamongwolves.com/blog/index.php?p=92#comment-572 This is an issue that I have struggled with over a long period of time and finally have settled in my heart. Our conceptual difficulties with callings, vocations, avocations, and occupations may be rooted in the Greek philosophy of "Dualism." Dennis Peacocke was the first to spark my interest in exploring these issues. Suffice to say that there's still a lot of confusion out there about what these terms really mean. A blog does not really provide an opportunity to appropriately to explore all of them in depth, but as a practical matter, to quote the apostle Paul, "If the whole body were [occupational pastors] where would the [selling, garbage collecting, food preparation, home construction, business managing, teaching, truck driving, plumbing, et al] be?" (1 Corinthians 12:17; cf. entire chapter). This is an issue that I have struggled with over a long period of time and finally have settled in my heart. Our conceptual difficulties with callings, vocations, avocations, and occupations may be rooted in the Greek philosophy of “Dualism.” Dennis Peacocke was the first to spark my interest in exploring these issues. Suffice to say that there’s still a lot of confusion out there about what these terms really mean. A blog does not really provide an opportunity to appropriately to explore all of them in depth, but as a practical matter, to quote the apostle Paul, “If the whole body were [occupational pastors] where would the [selling, garbage collecting, food preparation, home construction, business managing, teaching, truck driving, plumbing, et al] be?” (1 Corinthians 12:17; cf. entire chapter).

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