What if vocation isn’t your job but your life in Christ lived out in community? A Conversation with

This week on Together 4 Good, Pastor Nate sits down with Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Associate Professor of Leadership and Formation at Iliff School of Theology and keynote speaker for the upcoming Rocky Mountain Synod Assembly.

Together, they explore:

Why vocation is more than employment

How congregations discern their calling

The difference between growth and vitality

Why numbers don’t define faithfulness

And how “Life in Christ” is a call to abundance, not scarcity

Dr. Lizardy-Hajbi shares a powerful story of a rural congregation that responded to the opioid crisis not by trying to fix it — but by doing what the Church uniquely can do: holding sacred space for grief.

This episode invites both individuals and congregations to ask:

What are our gifts?

What does our community need?

What has God already placed in our hands?

Because life in Christ isn’t about becoming something else.

00:00 – Coming Up: Life in Christ & Vocation

01:05 – What “Vida en Christo” Really Means

03:00 – Why Vocation Is Always Communal

06:00 – Congregations Have Vocations Too

08:00 – The 4 Circles of Discernment

11:00 – Scarcity vs. Vitality in the Church

14:30 – A Church Responds to the Opioid Crisis

18:30 – Why Storytelling Matters in Discernment

22:00 – Dr. Kristina’s Personal Vocation Story

26:00 – “What Do You Do?” vs. “Who Are You?”

28:00 – Parenting as Vocation

29:30 – Life in Christ Is Abundance

32:00 – Preparing for Synod Assembly