“Mission without spiritual formation and virtue is impossible. But spiritual formation without mission is solipsistic.†- Greg Thompson, heard by author
Reflection
What, if anything, does my spiritual life have to do with my work life? Better yet, what does my spiritual life have to do with my life’s work? Is my specific vocation incidental or irrelevant to my spiritual formation? Or do these aspects of my life converge somehow? Similarly, are evangelical witness and the integration of faith and scholarship mutually exclusive concerns, one activity being suited to dynamic extroverts and the other to bookish introverts? Or is there a way in which these go together? May an individual, a church, or a campus fellowship choose to emphasize one of these concerns over another, or must concerns for formation, witness, service, integration, and community be all held together in order to do any of them justice? [Read more…] about Missio Dei: The Context of Our Callings (Scholar’s Compass)