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Is Ministry a Job or Vocation?

Jul 14, 2010

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by

mwkruse

in Christian Life, Clergy and Laity Dualism, Ecclesia, Vocation

Out of Ur: Is Ministry a Job or Vocation? Eugene Peterson laments in For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts (Baker Books, 2010) that he has been “trying for fifty years now to be a pastor in a culture that doesn’t know the difference between a vocation and a job.”…