In his preaching and writing, Puritan pastor Cotton Mather compared family religion to a 'family sacrifice.' This image anchored a vision of home nurture that highlighted both the offering of family spiritual practices and the offering of family members themselves as 'living sacrifice' in their everyday lives. Mather's visionith formation resulted in an approach that was holy and grace-filled, personal and corporate, formal and informal, and strong and submissive.
In post-Christian American culture, emerging adult vocational discernment has become a more protracted and complex process. If ministers are going to utilize this discernment process for emerging adult spiritual formation, they must address two significant domains. First, this culture tends to produce a dualistic and compartmentalized vision of vocation, constricting the fullness of the Christian story. Second, the culture has deified choice, threatening vocational commitment while blinding emerging adults to the already-present action of God. This article addresses these challenges and discusses the theological and practical means by whichs the Church can foster a renewed vision of vocational faithfulness. While the cultural scripts for vocational living emphasize a narrowed vocational sphere and the expansion of options, the Christian marrative points to a different posture: vocation rooted in purpose and providence.… (plus d'informations)
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