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Every Christian’s Vocation as a Child of God
By Rev. Dr. James A. Baneck, Executive Director, LCMS Office of Pastoral Education
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question children hear all the time. As children grow up, that question becomes “Where do you want to go to college?” or “What do you want to study?” or “What career will you pursue?”
These sorts of conversations are a natural place to bring up vocation — not just the various God-pleasing vocations of nurses and teachers, electricians and firefighters, but vocation in the sense of God’s calling of every Christian in his or her Baptism to be His child and to believe in Him. In our new baptismal life in Christ, God also works through us to love and serve our neighbors. This is every Christian’s vocation.
The following points are intended to help you — and the parents you know and serve (at church, at work, in your family, etc.) — to talk to young people about their vocation as baptized children of God:
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