I met with Udo while he was in the process of developing a discipleship project for his Master’s degree. Udo loves planning. It comes naturally and he is good at it, as the successful ministries he has built over the last 20-30 years confirm. Yet it never occurred to Udo that his gifts are spiritual.
This is Part 2 of our 2 part series, “Vocation and Calling”.
The word vocation comes from the Latin word “vocaré”, which means to call or name. It is a term that has been extensively discussed amongst scholars and theologians and throughout the centuries has been associated primarily with those who occupied
In 2010, our family had a desire to make discipleship something more than a program or Bible study. I wanted something more organic and integrated into everyday life that would help us pay attention and incorporate spiritual disciplines easily and
What is narrative theology? Narrative theology originated during the last half of the twentieth century and is an approach to theology that finds meaning in the master story of the Bible1. It asserts that the Bible is the story of
I’ve been reading and enjoying the work of Robert Webber recently. Webber led a change in evangelical circles to recover some of the treasures from the early church into our (post)modern mission, worship and thinking. In the appendix of his