Luther had emphasized the secular callings instead of the monastic, which in the Middle Ages alone had been called a vocation.
Priscilla calls her vocation Going Beyond Ministries: her goal is to help women go beyond the humdrum experience of "church as usual," and go beyond sectarian divides to focus on the Gospel.
He called politics a "vocation" and said he still loved being an MP.
Ammons's authority relied upon his presentation of himself as an ordinary person, not uniquely or exclusively called to the vocation of writing poems.
Writer spoke with Marshall Levin, the pres. of APPA, who said he is a campaign-button freak by avocation & the editor of a nat'l medical journal by vocation called "Surgical Medicine".
There is no guild system that says once you are called to the vocation of lifting 105-pound blocks, you must honorably retire from lifetime work in such a calling to a comfortable and suitably early retirement.
In open-air, makeshift auditoriums less lavishly appointed than some of those he has used in the past, he spoke to women about what he called their "lofty vocation" as wives and mothers.
All believers were called to their "vocations," and those of the clergy were not considered more meritorious than those of the laity.
Some people attend seminary intending to pursue an academic or counseling career, for example, but find themselves called to explore a vocation to ordained ministry.
This is a vocation – it called to you and you answered and now it calls in you.
