Recently, I was talking with a university student. He was sharing how he turned down academic opportunities at a prestigious university so he could instead “pursue ministry.” Since the decision was already made and he was currently enrolled at a different school to get a degree in … wait for it … ministry, I didn’t want to squelch his zeal. Besides, who am I? However, we did talk about the difference between vocation and occupation and why it is easy to confuse those terms, especially in the ministry world.

So what is the difference?

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