Two views of vocation
Gene Veith has posted a couple fun articles on coffee on his blog lately: Of Coffee and Christianity and The coffee maker and two doctrines of vocation. He ends the latter post by asking how two different Christian perspectives on vocation, the Reformed view and the Lutheran view, would evaluate his story about a barista.
Veith says that the Reformed view is that we carry out our vocations to the glory of God and that the Lutheran view was that we carry them out to love and serve our neighbors. I was surprised to read that there even were two identifyable views. Surely Reformed Christians believe that they are loving and serving their neighbors in their calling and Lutherans believe they are doing their work to the glory of God. But apparently each tradition has a different emphasis.
