Practice: work, culture, technology
Calling, image-bearing, stewardship, limits, idolatry, and faithful presence.
Reading scope: canonical.
Open this guide in the Concept AtlasVocation
Vocation is the divine call by which God summons persons and communities into covenantal identity, holy living, particular forms of service, and faithful participation in God's mission in…
Look for: Open Vocation and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Next, move toward Image of God (Functional) and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Vocation in the AtlasImage of God (Functional)
Humanity images God by exercising representative dominion, stewardship, and fruitful multiplication in creation, expressing God’s rule under his commission (Genesis 1:26-28; Psalm 8:4-8).
Look for: Open Image of God (Functional) and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Next, move toward Stewardship and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Image of God (Functional) in the AtlasStewardship
Stewardship is the biblical and theological conviction that God, as creator and owner of all things, entrusts human beings with life, land, possessions, authority, and the gospel for…
Look for: Open Stewardship and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Next, move toward Cultural Mandate and Technology and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Stewardship in the AtlasCultural Mandate and Technology
The cultural mandate and technology is humanity’s God-given vocation to subdue and cultivate creation through lawful, discerning means—reflecting Genesis 1:28 and 2:15 and Proverbs…
Look for: Open Cultural Mandate and Technology and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Next, move toward Idolatry and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Cultural Mandate and Technology in the AtlasIdolatry
The worship of images, false gods, or any creaturely reality in place of the living God, and by extension the misdirected trust, love, and service that belong to God alone.
Look for: Open Idolatry and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Next, move toward Vocation in Exile and watch how the route narrows or widens.
Explore Idolatry in the AtlasVocation in Exile
Vocation in exile is the faithful exercise of God-given calling amid displacement, as believers like Daniel and Joseph serve in foreign courts without surrendering covenant allegiance (Jer.
Look for: Open Vocation in Exile and notice its strongest neighbors, key verses, and repeated vocabulary.
Pause here and choose the next neighboring concept that deserves a closer look.
Explore Vocation in Exile in the Atlas