Vocation
Dear Friends,
I hope you enjoyed Stephen Orchard’s thoughts on some of our favourite hymns. We now turn to two weeks on vocations.
In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul outlined a number of offices in the Church to which people were called. As the Church developed offices, of course, changed. In the broad Orthodox and Catholic tradition ordained ministry is divided into three orders of deacon, priest and bishop. In the Reformed tradition we ordain Ministers of Word and Sacrament and Elders and, in the URC, we commission Church Related Community Workers, Assembly Accredited Lay Preachers, and Lay Pioneers. In less grand, but arguably more necessary, ways we are each called to roles within our local churches and to find ways to live out our vocation in our daily lives. Over the next two weeks those associated with our colleges – as tutors, students or ministers in their early years – explore this thing called vocation.
With every good wish
Andy
The Rev’d Andy Braunston
Minister for Digital Worship