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How does the guide define vocation?
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Marriage, family life, work, or consecrated religious life among clergy, monks and nuns.
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What practices does the guide list under group and individual experience?
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Daily private devotions; communal prayer; service to others; stewardship, grace, evangelism and mysticism.
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Through what does personal revelation come, on the guide's account?
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Experience of God in the Bible, history, nature, people, the Church and Jesus — marked by adult baptism.
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Why does counting work as a vocation matter?
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Because a tradition that treats a job and a household as callings has decided that holiness is available in ordinary life — a point the Reformation churches pressed explicitly.
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What does the guide list under meditation and worship?
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Meditation and contemplation, and writers on spirituality.
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What does the guide list under gender and religious experience?
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The ordination of women in various denominations, and women mystics.
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What point does the ordination-and-mystics pairing make?
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That religious authority and office are not the same thing: in churches where women could not be ordained, some exercised great authority through recognised experience, and their writings were read by clergy.
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Contrast Jewish and Christian attitudes to conversion.
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Judaism discourages it and is not a missionary religion, since it is not held to be the only path to God. Christianity lists evangelism among its practices, holding that believers are saved through faith in Jesus.
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What distinguishes charismatic worship as religious experience?
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The expectation that the Holy Spirit acts in the gathering itself — a doctrinal position about how God acts now, expressed as a form of service.
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