{"id":1916,"date":"2014-08-19T16:14:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:10:46","slug":"to-love-and-good-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2014\/to-love-and-good-works\/","title":{"rendered":"To Love and Good Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1916\" class=\"elementor elementor-1916\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-24dd594 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24dd594\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1866b8d\" data-id=\"1866b8d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3ec414 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3ec414\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cAll God\u2019s people are sent on mission and called to ministry.\u00a0<span>The only questions are where, among whom, and doing what?\u201d Ed Stetzer<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50f4603 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50f4603\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-160f09b\" data-id=\"160f09b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05b3713 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"05b3713\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>There is a geeky joy that most of us academics feel, even if secretly, when we learn a new word that captures what we have been trying to say for some time, but found ineffable. At the beginning of the twenty-first century a neologism began to appear that captures the sent-ness of the call many of us feel as Christ-followers in the wilderness of the academy.&nbsp; The word is the adjective, \u201cmissional.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-be8457d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"be8457d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1ad8d97\" data-id=\"1ad8d97\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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way we lost that sense of \u201ccalling\u201d that is the origin of the word vocation, or \u201cvocare\u201d in Latin.\u00a0 Perhaps it&#8217;s time to examine this missional role.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-169b13c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"169b13c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7245de4\" data-id=\"7245de4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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We think you&#8217;ll find these voices interesting and provocative.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-960ba72 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"960ba72\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7889f06\" data-id=\"7889f06\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86c538d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"86c538d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Please Join the Conversation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b400ed1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b400ed1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-237a4eb\" data-id=\"237a4eb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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