the Christian worldview is one of vocation and not merely a job,30 and therefore it strips the employer of any utilitarian notions about Jackie. In the church, we should be at the forefront of modeling to the world how our vocational ministers are not just an amalgamation of skills, but are people—people to learn from and be bettered by, and vice versa. For Jackie or his employers (or anyone else) to pull the emergency brake and leave prematurely is to rob everyone within the community of the blessing that can only come with the collision of differents.

