A Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Baptist walk into a bar. . . and start talking about vocation. Well, not really. The Baptist would not go into a bar, and in this case there is no Baptist. I’d describe the Liberate folks (a ministry of Tullian Tchividjian) as Lutheran-influenced evangelicals. But this video is a good example, in light of our recent discussions of those traditions, of how a Lutheran concept can indeed carry over into other traditions. Here Lutheran Rod Rosenbladt, Calvinist Michael Horton, and Liberate’s Daniel Siedell (a faculty member of Knox Seminary) are all talking about vocation and its relationship to justification.
The point, though, is that this is an EXCELLENT discussion of vocation, and a great introduction to what we keep talking about on this blog. (I appreciate the shout-outs to my work on the subject and the references to my book God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life
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. I haven’t read it yet, though I’m ordering it, but from what I’ve heard and read on the preview at Amazon (click the link), it looks promising. Also, he “gets” what Luther is saying and expresses warm appreciation for the Lutheran doctrine of vocation. What intrigues me is what he says about the different emphases of Lutheran, Calvinist, Evangelical, and Mainline Protestant treatments of vocation and the Christian’s life in the world. After the jump, see what he says in an interview in Christianity Today. 
) about the Lutheran view of the Christian life, how it perhaps doesn’t do enough with sanctification. I think the missing link, so to speak, is the doctrine of vocation. Here is a somewhat revised version of what I posted as a comment:
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