Questions to explore:
- What is the definition of calling?
- What are biblical characteristics of “finding” one’s calling?
- Who comes to mind as examples of biblical characters who “found†their calling?
- What are sins that undermine our calling and we should be prepared to address?
Definitions of Calling
[T]he truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service — Os Guinness. The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life Nelson. 1998, 4.
The Christian’s calling is to a life oriented to, sustained by, and expressive of Jesus Christ, the risen and exalted Son of God, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. – T. M. Moore. Dynamic of Spiritual Life (2). The Colson Center for Christian Worldview. 1/25/2011.
As I prepared to teach, I realized the only worldview I was leaving out of my classes was the Christian worldview. I said that if anything in Christianity was true, I was withholding it from my graduate students. I felt like a liar.†– An “anti-definition†from Mary Poplin‘s Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service (InterVarsity Press. 2008,  149).
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