So far we have focused mainly on vocations as occupations, the way most people spend much of the waking hours of the middle portion of their lives. Our work lives matter profoundly. If you aren't godly at work then you aren't godly at all.
But one's work life is not sovereign. And it is only one of the many Christian callings. In the introduction to his Small Catechism, Martin Luther identified key Scripture texts that gave instruction for what he called "holy orders," or the various "estates" in which God's people must live out "their office and duty." He was deliberately critiquing the Roman Catholic notion of "holy orders" in which only official church workers were set apart for a sacred purpose. Luther rejected this thesis. Every believer is set apart to live for God. And his "holy orders" makes this plain. He highlights "every day activities in the workplace, the culture, the church, and especially the family." In all of these vocations our specific calling as male or female has a great influence often minimized in our egalitarian culture.
So we must work to the glory of God. But we can't do that if in our occupations we fail to respect our other callings. Our vocations are many. And in the Christian they must harmonize to the glory of God. Let's consider three key vocations that you must honor as you consider your life's work.
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