On “Calling”
Posted by taiwankat on September 4, 2009
“I love to look at this picture of the world and the location of the laborers and then ask people, “Is this the way that God wants it? Is this His doing? Because in the back of the minds of most believers is the idea that we are excused from the responsibility to act until God has “called” us to go somewhere specifically. If that is the case, it passes the blame on to God for the 10/40 Window, as if He is at fault for the millions of unreached…It is the result of believers who are meant to live for the journey that pass on “go”, assuming that world missions is for an elite group of super saints. The default is then a life lived for themselves and their agendas—a life of exemption which, for some reason, doesn’t require a special calling.”
- p. 124, Live Life on Purpose, Hickman, Claude
I think it’s about seeing God’s heart, loving the things He loves, seeing the world through His eyes. And after seeing a need…how then do we respond?
