Kingdom Calling – Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good

Amy L. Sherman, Reggie McNeal, Steven Garber (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2011
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3809-7 (ISBN)

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Amy Sherman unpacks Proverbs 11:10—"When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices"—to develop a theology and program of vocational stewardship. Here is practical help for churches, ministries and other faith communities to navigate the complex process of following Jesus in those places where we happen to prosper.

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.

Dr. Amy L. Sherman is a senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, where she directs the Center on Faith in Communities. She also serves as a senior fellow with the International Justice Mission. Steven Garber is the principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. A consultant to foundations, corporations and schools, he is a teacher of many people in many places. The author of The Fabric of Faithfulness, he is also a contributor to the books Faith Goes to Work: Reflections from the Marketplace and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue. He lives with his wife, Meg, in Virginia.

Foreward by Reggie McNeal

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Glorious Vision of Proverbs 11:10

Part I: Theological Foundations

1. What Does a Rejoiced City Look Like?

2. What Do the Righteous Look Like?

3. Why We Aren't the Tsaddiqim

4. How the Gospel of the Kingdom Nurtures the Tsaddiqim

Part II: Discipling for Vocational Stewarship

5. Integrating Faith and Work: The Status Quo is Inadequate

6. Inspiration

7. Discovery

8. Formation

Part III: Pathways of Vocational Stewardship

9. Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways

10. Pathway 1: Bloom Where You're Planted

11. Pathway 2: Donate Your Skills

12. Pathway 3: Launch Your Own Social Enterprise

13. Pathway 4: Participate in Your Church's Targeted Initiative

Conclusion: Rejoicing the City

Afterword by Steven Garber

Appendix A: Key Theological Themes Undergirding Vocational Stewardship

Appendix B: A Discussion Guide for Congreghational Small Groups

Appendix C: For Further Information

Appendix D: Index of Profiles by Vocation

Notes

About the Author

Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-3809-0 / 0830838090
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-3809-7 / 9780830838097
Zustand	Neuware