3. Vocation and Christian Friendship
When God assigned a mission to humankind, his purpose was neither efficiency-driven nor productivity-driven. It was friendship-driven. The assignment of work to humankind was God's invitation to a partnership within the context of intimate friendship. It was friendship, not work itself, that was to result in productivity.

It is necessary then for us to understand our various vocations as God's invitation to friendship. We work not because we need to earn a living or because we need to gratify our capitalistic inclinations. We work because we are friends of God.

Friends of God work because God has given them a mission to fulfill in this world. They work because they have been called to go into the world to inspire the world to share the dreams of God. It is a dream of friendship. In order to inspire the world with God's dream of friendship, friends of God embody friendship to the world.

In selecting a vocation for ourselves, we should not base our selection on the lucrative prospects of a vocation. Such a choice should be based on the potentials that God has placed in our hands; gifts we have that can best serve the wellbeing of people who will become our friends. In selecting a vocation, we want to offer the best that we are to our friends; hence, we choose to work at what we do best. For others.

We serve our employers, we serve our fellow colleagues, and we serve our clients, but not out of an obligation to perform or to attain our self-gratifying desires. We serve because this is what friends do for one another. We work so that we can serve the world in a spirit of friendship. Everything else that results from our work is of secondary significance. This is how God works.