Calling,

Calling... Are we called? If we are, what are we called to?

To be called means simply that we are being beckoned, asked or commisioned to come to or to preform a specific task or action. There have been many times that I have encountered people who seemingly are paralyzed in regards to knowing what God has called them to do in life. Often people can feel that calling is connected to positions of ministry or one of the five fold ministries: Prophet, Pastor, Evangelist, Teacher, Apostle. While calling can refer to one of these offices of ministry, I believe that there is nothing more clear in scripture than the fact that we are all to be those who share the gospel of Jesus Christ with those who have no personal relationship with Jesus.

This quote from William Booths frames the importance of the call we have as believers:

"How can anybody with spiritual eyesight talk of having no call, when there are such multitudes around them who never hear a word of God, and never intend to; who can never hear, indeed, without the sort of preacher who will force himself upon them? Can a man keep right in his own soul who can see all that, and yet stand waiting for a “call” to preach? Would they wait so for a “call” to help anyone to escape from a burning building, or to snatch a sinking child from a watery grave?"

What higher calling in life can there be than to rescue people from eternal separation from their Creator.

Luke 15:7 (NKJV)
I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

I want to encourage you as a Christian to embrace the call and share the Good News of Jesus with others! Fulfill your calling in the Lord, let joy be released in the heavens.

Pastor Doug