Because you are baptized, you are freed to live in this world in service to your neighbor. What you do is your vocation. Vocations are varied. Vocations are careers, yes, but also calls to married or single life, to be parents or not, to volunteer or work among a given people or with a certain problem. Vocations are the way you share the Good News with others, the way you pray on behalf of others, and the way you offer yourself for the sake of others (here, I am paraphrasing the work of Dave Daubert). Because you are baptized, you have the opportunity to be in ministry, not (necessarily) as a pastor or deacon but by being who you are and following God's call which comes through your baptism and the daily remembering of your baptism. We call this "the priesthood of all believers." Explore this piece from Lutherans Restoring Creation which considers Luther's work on baptism in the Small Catechism.
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