2013 Christianity Today Book Award winner Imagine the scenarios: a
CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds
of layoffs in the process an artist completes a mosaic for public
display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes a contractor
creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison,
growing the business and seeing countless former inmates turn their
lives around a high-school principal graduates 20 percent more
students than the previous year, and the school's average scores go
up by a similar percentage Now imagine a parade in the streets for
each event. That's the vision of Proverbs 11:10, in which the
tsaddiqim--the people who see everything they have as gifts from
God to be stewarded for his purposes--pursue their vocation with an
eye to the greater good. Amy Sherman, director of the Center on
Faith in Communities and scholar of vocational stewardship, uses
the tsaddiqim as a springboard to explore how, through our
faith-formed calling, we announce the kingdom of God to our
everyday world. But cultural trends toward privatism and
materialism threaten to dis-integrate our faith and our work. And
the church, in ways large and small, has itself capitulated to
those trends, while simultaneously elevating the "special calling"
of professional ministry and neglecting the vocational formation of
laypeople. In the process, we have, in ways large and small,
subverted our kingdom mandate. God is on the move, and he calls
each of us, from our various halls of power and privilege, to
follow him. Here is your chance, keeping this kingdom calling in
view, to steward your faith and work toward righteousness. In so
doing, you will bless the world, and as you flourish, the world
will celebrate.
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