Rev. Dr. Michael Berg is an assistant professor of theology at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, WI. He is married to Amanda, a teacher at St. Philip’s Lutheran School. Together they have three daughters: Abigail, Noelle, and Sophia. Before moving to Milwaukee, the Bergs spent twelve serving St. John’s Lutheran Church in Wood Lake, MN. Mike is a graduate of Martin Luther College, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, The International Academy of Apologetics, Human Rights, and Evangelism, and Biola University. He is the author of Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing. He has written for Logia, Gottesdienst, Preach the Word, 1517, and Forward in Christ and is cohost of the podcast, Let the Bird Fly.
Michael Berg: Ok, So You’re Saved… Now What? Vocation as the Setting for Flourishing
“God doesn’t need your good works… But your neighbor does.”
Ok, so were saved… Now what? Once we know we are firm in Christ, we ask, along with Luther, what should we do now? We know we don’t perform good works to get saved, or to stay saved, or to improve our salvation, or to impress God… So why do works at all then? We agree with Luther/Wingren saying “God doesn’t need your good works… But your neighbor does.” We are free to work, we are free to return to a pre-fall era where work was first introduced as the original great commission (in the great cultural mandate “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it…” “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion…’”). Join us as we sit down with Dr. Michael Berg, author of “Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing” (1517), and have one of the most edifying and compelling nuts-and-bolts discussions on the Christian life as we have ever had where Dr. Berg, so clearly shows us, that vocation is “the setting for human flourishing”. Amen.
Special thanks to Dr. Matthew Kaemingk who, from his book “Work and Worship“, made me aware of the great artwork (including the one used for this post) of Ade Bethune.
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