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Loving Your Neighbor: The Purpose of Vocation
Volume 86, Program 23
12/10/2008
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Why do you get up in the morning? Is your daily objective to check a few more things off the to-do list or to bring home the paycheck? Today on Home School Heartbeat with HSLDA President Mike Smith, special guest Dr. Gene Edward Veith reveals the heart of your calling.

Mike Smith:
Dr. Veith, you explained this week how vocation applies to many areas of life. What is the purpose of vocation, though?

Dr. Gene Edward Veith:
Well, the purpose of every vocation is to love and serve our neighbor, especially the neighbor God gives us as we live out our different callings. Now, we serve God, in the way that God commands us to in Scripture, by, again, loving and serving our neighbor.

So, in the church, everyone in their different callings, whether you’re a pastor, or in the choir, or an elder, or whatever, we’re to love and serve our neighbors—love and serve the other members of our church.

In the state, we’re supposed to love and serve our fellow citizens, in the policies we advocate and in the way we live out our citizenship. In the workplace, we are to love and serve our customers and the people that we deal with in our jobs.

And in the family, it’s a place for fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, children, parents, to love and serve each other.

Mike:
Dr. Veith, that is great encouragement to be faithful in all the vocations to which we’re called. Thank you for exercising your vocation by sharing this message with us today! And until next time, I’m Mike Smith.


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