every lawful occupation may and should be a “vocation”—a calling of God. All useful work is kingdom work. No one need feel left out of the Kingdom program simply because he has been called to be a farmer rather than a preacher. God still cares about the replenishing and subduing of the earth (Gen. 1:28; 9:1–7). And God wants us to do our farming, our carpentry, our homemaking, our musical, medical, business work—all our labor—in ways pleasing to Him. There should be Christian businesses, just as
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