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Confidence
Belief overview
Christian vocation in the world
Ordinary life may be a legitimate place of service to God.
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Neutral
What it is: Lutheranism values the idea of vocation, according to which service to God may occur in the ordinary responsibilities of life.
How the religion understands it: Work, family, government, study, and communal life may be seen as places of obedience, love of neighbor, and Christian faithfulness. This reduces the opposition between religious life and common life.
Context: The doctrine of vocation had great influence on Lutheran social ethics and spirituality.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
1 Corinthians 7:17
Live according to the condition in which one was called.
Reference: 1 Corinthians 7:17.
Content: Paul instructs each person to live in the vocation in which he or she was called.
Use in debate: It is often linked to the Lutheran doctrine of vocation.
Colossians 3:17
Everything done in the name of the Lord.
Reference: Colossians 3:17.
Content: The text relates the whole life of the believer to thanksgiving and the lordship of Christ.
Use in debate: It is used in Lutheran reflections on vocation and ordinary life.