Abstract
THE way we commonly use the terms “calling” and “vocation” is different from the way those terms are used in the Bible. In ecclesiastical settings, we often use “vocation” as a technical term for a summons to ordained ministry. And as a result of the way the Reformation universalised the idea of vocation, this language has broader currency. Career counsellors and life coaches help people discern their vocations, that is, figure out what they were put on earth to do.