Vocational Guilds
About the Guilds
Vocational Guilds are an industry specific association of individuals seeking to grow personally in their calling, to more thoughtfully serve their profession and industry, and to align more fully in union with the God.
Through Vocational Guilds, we establish a new vision for our profession, a view beyond our paycheck or status, which includes defining a new standard of how to work through ethical and best practices.
Gathering with those who share a common profession is an opportunity to be encouraged by and learn from those in your industry. It is a chance to hone your craft as well as your soul.
Learn more about the value of a Vocational Guild in this Collaborative-commissioned article written by Andrzej Turkanik of the Quo Vadis Institute.
Small groups introducing and forming a Vocational Guild are offered on a seasonal basis. Guilds exist for small business entrepreneurs, human resources professionals, stay-at-home parents, banking, educators, IT, and legal professionals.
Weekly Content
Work is an underappreciated tool for restoration (given by God) because...
- Culture is broken.
- Work has not been properly defined.
- There is no imagination for what God longs to do in and through us.
A theology of work (paid or unpaid) is critically important because...
- It promotes the common good.
- It prompts me towards culture making practices.
- It moves me to greater union with Christ.
- Scripture clearly teaches a theology of work.
Vocational guilds can help us experience and engage in work as intended because...
- It gives us the tools for the journey.
- It cultivates life giving habits.
We should think differently about work because...
- Christians need to be mission-minded rather than transactional.
- Relationships - co-workers, company, and community - are vital to our work.
Work can be toil because...
- It is viewed as punitive.
- "We are idol factories..."
There is hope in work because...
- God's mission for the world is seen in creation, fall, redemption, restoration.
