Christian Worldview Week Focuses on Vocation and Human Flourishing
Posted on: March 6, 2025
Tigerville, SC—Vocation, calling, and practical spiritual disciplines.
These were the topics covered during North Greenville University’s (NGU) Christian Worldview Week, which featured talks from keynote speakers Christina Crenshaw and Dan Darling.
Crenshaw opened the week on Monday with her lecture “Beyond the Sacred and Secular Divide: Christian Leadership for Every Vocational Sphere of Influence.”
Crenshaw is a speaker and author who focuses on the intersection of faith and culture. She has served in faculty or research roles at California Baptist University, Baylor University, and Dallas Theological Seminary.
“I want to encourage you guys to think about your calling as an opportunity to be light in the darkness because we know no matter how dark the world becomes that the darkness cannot overcome the light because of course there’s a spiritual element there and we know who wins in the end,” Crenshaw told students.
Crenshaw challenged students to view their vocational call through the biblical lens of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration and how their God-given calling has purpose as they seek to use their gifts to glorify God and serve others.
“Your worldview, knowing the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind, seeing the Lord through this creation, fall, redemption, restoration lens and looking at your life as vocation as identity in Christ as service to the Lord with the church, that is what a broken, hungry world needs and you have that light in you,” she said. “I’m so excited what you guys are going to do in the future because you are His ambassadors and carrying His light.”
Crenshaw also spoke on “Redeeming Justice: Reclaiming God’s Vision for Doing Good” Monday night in Hamlin Recital Hall.
On March 4, Darling presented “Created to Create: Why the Work of Your Hands Matters to God” in Hamlin Recital Hall. He concluded the week in Turner Chapel on March 5 with a talk entitled, “Inside and Outside: Intentional Formation for Your Life in The World.”
Darling is assistant professor of faith and culture at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Land Center for Cultural Engagement. He is also the Church Engagement Strategist and a Research Fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
“Your life in the world, whatever it is God call you to do, however you serve your neighbors, serve God, whatever your vocation is, however you demonstrate your faith in the public square in other places, your life in the world is only ever as good as your life with God,” Darling told students during his second talk.
Darling’s message focused on giving students practical spiritual disciplines that they can put into practice today. The seven disciplines were Scripture reading, faithful church attendance, prayer, curiosity, forgiveness and repentance, generosity, and friendship.
Darling also addressed three postures that will hijack one’s future. These postures were isolation, entitlement, and insecurity.
“You can trust your future, your unknown future to the God that you know. You can trust your life to the One who promised to guide the steps of the one who follows Him,” said Darling. “And there are practices you can put in place today, empowered by the Spirit of God that will shape your life tomorrow.”
