God at Work: Your Christian Vocation
in All of Life (Focal Point Series) by
Gene Edward, Jr. Veith
Missing Link
When you understand it properly, the doctrine of vocation--doing
everything for Gods glory--is not a platitude or an outdated notion. This
principle that we vaguely apply to our lives and our work is actually the key
to Christian ethics, to influencing our culture for Christ, and to infusing our
ordinary, everyday lives with the presence of God. For when we realize
that the mundane activities that consume most of our time are Gods hiding
places, our perspective changes.
Culture expert Gene Veith unpacks the biblical, Reformation teaching
about the doctrine of vocation, emphasizing not what we should
specifically do with our time or what careers we are called to, but what God
does in and through our callings--even within the home. In each task He
has given us--in our workplaces and families, our churches and society--
God Himself is at work. Veith guides you to discover Gods purpose and

calling in those seemingly ordinary areas by providing you with a spiritual
framework for thinking about such issues and for acting upon them with a
changed perspective.
Personal Review: God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of
Life (Focal Point Series) by Gene Edward, Jr. Veith
God at Work is a great exposition, very accessible to the general Christian
reader, simply on work, or more specifically all the various ways that
Christians are called to work in their lives. This is about the doctrine of
calling, which perhaps, is initially understood by many as calling by God to
exclusive spiritual work, like preaching or some other direct type of church
ministry.
Gene Veith is an academic dean at Patrick Henry College, and a frequent
writer on the importance of Christians seeing all of life under the Lord of all.
He is a Lutheran, and as a result spends much of this relatively short text
(about 200 pgs) expounding on Martin Luther's writings on vocation,
recontextualized for the 21st century. Part of the Reformation, which
Luther helped to lead, was the near revolutionary approach to seeing the
work of Christians outside of a sacred/ secular dichotomy, which is that
some work was ministry, and other work was just ordinary drudgery. Not
dividing work into a sacred and secular categories remains near constant
struggle for many in the 21st century, and Veith aims to show how calling
and purpose relate to anything that the Christian faithfully sets out to do.
Veith states that the motivation for every Christian, in everything he is
called to is to reflect the common call that Christ demands in following him.
Vocation is a matter of service and love, in everything here. So the Veith
insists that way to spiritually determine value in work is can it express
service and love to others. In a sense, he sanctifies all sorts of occupations
with this general understanding, so that even mundane work, or work that
does not appear particularly spiritual can be called up and drawn into the
realm of Christ by expressing it with love and service.
Vocation in this book is not limited to ordinary work, but Veith shows how
calling applies to family, citizenship and church relationships. In a strong
sense, this book attempts to unite and integrate all of Christian theology
into touch-points of a persons life, so that the recreating work of Christ can
redeem a whole person, not just the outwardly spiritual side of an
individual's life. In an era of individualism and outward separation from
traditional connections, this book is a strong advocate for individuals
demonstrating, through actions, that the Christian life is a whole life, one
that integrates into all parts, not just a narrowly spiritual side.
Veith, in his effort to point to and clarify Luther's revolutionary teaching on
vocation, draws a bit too much on quoting people quoting Luther. Other
than that, this is a fine book that would be of value for individual or group

study, for workers looking for purpose and calling in their careers and
those looking to integrate their theology in all of life.
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