Christian's Calling in the World (book)

This book addresses the yearning that people have to discover God's presence in the midst of their daily life.
 
Marc Kolden, professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary, is a scholar who grounds his teaching in the context of the congregation. Kolden has a passion for equipping all God's people for their work in the world. With clarity and brevity he expresses Luther's understanding of the Christian's calling.
 
The church often has given most of its time and attention to salvation and eternal life rather than to creation and this life. This has meant that doing ministry and living a particularly Christian life have been emphasized while people's daily lives, in all of their ordinariness and ambiguity, often haven't been linked meaningfully to faith in God. this can be frustrating for persons who spend the greatest part of their waking hours occupied with "ordinary" life.
 
Having a vocation or a calling from God in the world may seem strange to some Christians and others who are not accustomed to thinking about the world as being related to God. Many Christians more commonly think of God in relation to the wold to come rather than to this world; they do not think much about God's involvement in the present but mostly about the promised future eternal life. Yet the Bible doesn't split things up that way. The Bible portrays God as the giver of new life, as the one who creates and who redeems and restores the creation.