Deploying our vocational power to advance foretastes of the Kingdom of God.
Vocational Stewardship
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Resources
Tools
Ten Ways to Encourage Vocational Stewardship In Your Church
Small Group Discussion Guide on Vocation – Use these questions to enliven your small group’s ability to support members in living missionally through their daily work.
Discussion Questions for Use by Vocational Guilds – Does your church gather members into small groups by profession (e.g., law, medicine, business, art)? If so, invite them to try out these discussion starters.
Influence Audit – Congregants can use this tool to list “who they know” who could be valuable resources for advancing the church’s work in the community.
A Talents Inventory – Congregants are more than their spiritual gifts. They are also their natural gifts. Use this tool with congregants to help them inventory their natural and vocational abilities and the talents they possess that need to be stewarded well for the Kingdom.
The Dimensions of Vocational Power – We cannot steward well that which we don’t recognize we possess. Use this tool to help congregants identify and inventory the dimensions of their vocational power.
Articles
More Effective Outreach– Amy Sherman, Gospel Movement.org
Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good– Amy Sherman, Crosswalk.com
Vocational Stewardship Beyond Piety to the Public Good– Amy Sherman, Center for Public Justice
Vocation Needs No Justification– Steven Garber, Comment Magazine, Fall 2010
Words and Deeds– Joel Belz, World Magazine, September 24th, 2011
Reviews
Annotated Bibliography
Work by Ben Witherington III–Amy Sherman, PRISM Magazine, Nov/Dec 2011
Unlimited Partnership by Bill Wellons and Lloyd Reeb- Kelly Givens
Links
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Vocational Stewardship In Action
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Cliff Nellis: Comb...
Cliff Nellis: Combining Law and Urban Youth Ministry by Amy Sherman and Kelly Givens Cliff Nellis, a graduate of the University of Chicago’s School of Law, became a Christian near the end of his clerkship for a federal judge in Colorado. He took some time off to bike cross-country, studying the bible with all the delight of the brand-new believer. During the trip, Nellis reports, “I started feeling called to ministry. I started thinking about whether I’d stay in the law or not.” Looking back, he sees that as a young believer, he “had this very narrow view: ministry is …
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Anne Hughes and Je...
Anne Hughes and Jenny Oliver: Realtors Going the Extra Mile By Kelly N. Givens December 7, 2011 As anyone who has tried to buy or sell a house in the past half a decade knows, the housing market is currently in a state of crisis. In the aftermath of the burst housing bubble, we’ve seen investment banks going broke, the government bailing out companies, and the U.S. economy in recession. Foreclosures have steadily risen since 2006, draining wealth from consumers and eroding the financial strength of banking institutions. Home prices have tumbled, and it’s unclear if they’ve hit their lowest …
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