We live in a post-vocational age. Without any theology of vocation we lapse into debilitating alternatives: fatalism (doing what is required by “the forces” and “the powers”); luck (which denies purposefulness in life and reduces our life to a bundle of accidents); karma (which ties performance to future rewards); nihilism (which denies that there is any good end to which the travail of history might lead); and, the most common alternative today, self-actualization (in which we invent the meaning and purpose of our lives, making us magicians). In contrast the biblical doctrine of vocation proposes that the whole of our lives finds meaning in relation to the sweet summons of a good God (Paul Stevens).
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EXCELLENCY and Glory of the Chu

EXCELLENCY and Glory of the Chu

EXCELLENCY and Glory of the Church, The

  1. Derived from God # Isa 28:5
  2. Derived from Christ # Isa 60:1 Lu 2:34
  3. Result from the favour of God # Isa 43:4
  4. God delights in # Ps 45:11 Isa 62:3-5
  5. Saints delight in # Isa 66:11
  6. CONSIST IN ITS 6a) Being the seat of God’s worship

    # Ps 96:6

6b) Being the temple of God # 1Co 3:16,17 Eph 2:21,22 6c) Being the body of Christ # Eph 1:22,23 6d) Being the bride of Christ # Ps 45:13,14 Re 19:7,8 21:2 6e) Being established # Ps 48:8 Isa 33:20 6f) Eminent position # Ps 48:2 Isa 2:2 6g) Graces of character # So 2:14 6h) Perfection of beauty # Ps 50:2 6i) Members being righteous # Isa 60:21 Re 19:8 6j) Strength and defence # Ps 48:12,13 6k) Sanctification # Eph 5:26,27 7) Augmented by increase of its members # Isa 49:18 60:4-14 8) Are abundant # Isa 66:11 9) Sin obscures # La 2:14,15