Calling is not just for “a call to the ministry,” or a “call to the mission field.” Dentists are called, and homemakers are called, and chefs are called, and teachers are called. Our modern terminology about this is appalling. We call ministry, for example, “full time Christian work.” But for the Reformers, every aspect of life was under the Lordship of Christ, which meant that every vocation is full time Christian work. There is no other kind. Teaching math or grammar is full time Christian work.
