Biography: BA (Geneva College), MA (Goddard College), PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
Dr. Steven Garber is the Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership, Regent College. Formerly the Principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good (InterVarsity Press, 2014) which won numerous awards from Christianity Today and other publications
Steve is married to Meg. They have five grown children and several grandchildren.
Notes From our Interview:
-Daniel: He was extruded into more responsibility. His job was right in the middle. Interesting thing isn’t the fun stories about lions dens and fiery furnaces in the first part of the book, but the second half of the book where Daniel “couldn’t sleep at night” and was “perplexed”.
-Baseball analogy: Batting .300% is seen as a huge success. Speaks to how difficult this world is.
-Daniel, as a person of faith, was seen to be a faithful man.
-Marriage can be both glorious and ruinous.
-Bring together character and competence.
-Long lasting teams versus short term teams.
-Healthy Social Ecology – “we belong to each other.”
-Clapham Credo: “Choose a neighbor before you choose a house.”
-How do you deepen your commmitments in life versus disgarding them?
-How do you create staying power? Develop “habits of heart” coming into fulness of adulthood.
1) Form set of convictions about who God is, who I am that makese sense of what I do (worldview).
2) Find mentors that have made this word become flesh. Come to understand there are people who actually live like this.
3) Community – find kindred spirits of people who choose to do life together that are like-hearted and like-minded.
-St Augustine, “It’s not what you believe, but what you love.”
-Enchirdion of Augustine: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/augustine_enchiridion_02_trans.htm
-Community gives endurance. “I’m still at this. I hope you are. I need you to be.”
Joshua Ballantine 