disruptive grace

I’ve been thinking about vocation recently. I would say ‘calling’ but I find that word often gets used in a way which has more to do with an obsession with self. Having said that, I have this phrase ‘calling is context’ spinning round my mind at the moment, and I’m going to explore what that could mean.

Peterson reminds use (in ‘Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places’) to remember our primary context is God and his action and intention.

“Most of the Christian life involves paying attention to who God is and what he does; but not only the who and the what but the how and the means God employs to accomplish his ends. If we get too interested in what wedo and are, we go off the rails badly”

As I’ve been thinking about this I’m exploring who the story God instigates is then our first context. As a designer and being slightly geeky I’ve been playing around with a diagram to help me think through this.

vocation and context

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A book I’ve been looking forward to for a while ‘Christianity Beyond Belief’ by Todd Hunter has now been released. Todd hunter has been very helpful as I’ve explored thinking and practice as a follower of Jesus for the past few years. I’ve missed opportunities to speak to him personally over that time, but fortunately due to blog’s and mp3’s I’ve benefited from his thoughts and wisdom. Most notably if you can find the talks online of Todd’s presentations of the Kingdom Life with Dallas Willard then do make time to listen to them. Todd has a great way of communicating, with stories examples and drawing on some great sources, so the new book is set to be a winner.

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