http://vimeo.com/16627829 Have you found yourself on an "Advent"-ure as we've considered Finding Calcutta? Do you find yourself longing for and waiting upon the coming of the Lord in your life, your neighborhood, your discipline, your campus, your nation, the creation? Do you find yourself, both as an individual and as part of the Body of Christ, stepping into the new heavens and the new earth? When the Caller speaks, whether in the midst of the mundane or the extraordinary, are you embracing the call? … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
Mary Poplin
Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
Probes: How would you articulate the gulf between a secular legacy, one of the world's primary measures of a life's work, and faithful fulfillment of Christian calling? How have you received affirmation/fulfillment in the blessing of Christ's call and following Christ's call? Defining legacy 1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest 2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome -- From … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .
What do you think about . . . The nature of calling in the formal work of the church? Our need to recognize God's call and act in faithful response to it: in personal actions and obedience? in ways modeled by Mother Teresa as recorded by Mary Poplin in Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service (InterVarsity Press. 2008)? Calling to Formal Ministry with the Church Mother Teresa's special calling to start the Missionaries of Charity in ministry to the … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .
Finding Calcutta: “call awareness” w/o losing “Caller dependence”
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 … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: “call awareness” w/o losing “Caller dependence”
Finding Calcutta: Find yourself in doing, not criticizing
Questions on the table: What are the spiritual principles for our attitude and our actions in pursuing God's calling? How are attitude, action and audience part of our calling? The Attitude of the Called Our eyes and our heart should be on our God. Criticism and cynicism do not have a place in our calling. Mother (Teresa) believed that criticism weakens our will to obey, and that our will is the only thing that God will not take from us. Mother Teresa wrote to her sisters, "It is much easier to … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: Find yourself in doing, not criticizing