Living Faith: Embracing God's Callings

Book, 2012, 126 pp
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This is a book about vocation and calling, and it is written from an Anabaptist perspective, or in an Anabaptist key, drawing on the rich resources of the forebears of today's Anabaptists: Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites, as well as those in many emerging churches. Anabaptists were among the Reformers of the sixteenth century, occupying what some have called the "radical wing" of the european Reformation.

While Anabaptists drew from the rich history of their Catholic ancestors, they also agreed with many of the church reforms theologian Martin Luther and his companions were seeking to implement. In addition, they pushed for the clear separation of church and state, giving freedom to the church to determine its own policies and practices; argued for adult baptism, so that people could make a conscious, mature choice to be Christian; sought to practice peacemaking; and called believers to an active, lived discipleship.

In the train of those spiritual ancestors, I will be suggesting that the primary calling of all Christians is simply to be followers of Jesus Christ. To be "called" and to be "Christian" are essentially the same thing. To be called is to see all of the world, and to see our lives, through God's eyes, and to live faithfully as disciples of Jesus. That, to me, is what is most important about the notion of calling. In trying to discern our callings, we need to be able to say, in a way that matters, in a way that changes us and our perspective on the world, "I am a disciple of Jesus Christ." (From the introduction)
"Graber Miller calls all Christians to discern their passions, to be followers of Christ in vocations that matter " With the charm of a master story-teller, the vision of a teacher, and the insight of a seasoned scholar, he ranges from Mennonite history to today's urban and professional Mennonite culture in a way that will inform and challenge lay readers and theologians alike." - Nancy T. Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Boston University

"This is a remarkable book--easy to read and yet profoundly theological, in touch with diverse perspectives and yet persuasively authoritative. I couldn't recommend it more highly." - Sara Wenger Shenk, President, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

"Living Faith reminds us that the primary agenda of an Anabaptist vocation, whether or not it is lodged in one's remunerated work, is 'to work at bringing healing and reconciliation in God's good and groaning world.'" - Jim Lewis, who was Executive Director, the Louisville Institute, and is Author, The Protestant Experience in Gary, Indiana: 1906-1975.

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