When I read James Davison Hunter's book, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, last year, one of the things he talked about repeatedly was the need for the church to work out a theology of vocation. In the video below, Mark Greene, of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, talks about how believers should understand their Monday-Saturday work as part of the call of God's people to make known the Kingdom of God. There are a lot of misconceptions about work among Christians – that we work just to pay the bills, that working as a pastor or missionary is a higher calling, that being a Christian in the workplace means just evangelising your co-workers – but these do not square with the fact that humanity was designed to work.

(FYI: the sound quality on the video is not great and Greene's voice is often washed out by the music, so listen carefully.)

As I mentioned above, Hunter argues that it is the church that needs to work out a theology of vocation. This is about the formation of disciples. These are the sorts of big questions we need to be addressing in our local contexts.

The bottom line is that believers need to understand that what they do matters.