| | Always Changing RolesDuring our LifeGroup gathering last night M. Lenert led us in a discussion regarding "OUR CALLING". We discussed how calling was different from career, but that our careers could reflect our calling. We discussed how we have these inherent longings/interests/passions within each of us, sometimes even from early childhood, wanting to be fulfilled. These are sometimes even obscured by our parents wishes for us, or the track they might have us on.
B. Hoover added that in times past she mistakenly took her sense of calling from whatever role she found herself playing out at the time; roles like wife, mother, manager, pastor's wife, etc., but that she is looking more to who she IS, rather than what she DOES to figure out her calling.
We had a time of prayer afterward that God would indeed lead us each according to his dreams for our lives, and help us discover and be commissioned to fulfill our calling. During this prayer time T. Herren described a scene running through her head during prayer.
It was a panorama of a battlefield, with some on the front lines fighting, but with many others doing various and a sundry tasks to support those on the front. Some made ammo, some transported various supplies, some cared for the wounded, etc. Additionally, roles changed, with some behind the lines going to the front, and those on the front lines coming back to fill various supply roles. So no one took their sense of calling from what they were currently doing, because what they were doing could change; but all were soldiers nonetheless.
This perspective was helpful for all of us, as we all participate in a very production oriented culture, especially here in the big city.
My sense of calling goes back to when I was 21 years of age, sleeping on a garage floor in east New Orleans, and trying to build relationships nightly in the French Quarter. I had gotten to know a lot of the street people, prostitutes, and dancers from the clubs in the Quarter since me and some colleagues were there nightly for months on end. My head was reeling from all that I had been learning on the streets and from the bible, simultaneously. I knew one thing for certain - that all I was learning in scripture had vast implications for me and every person I was attempting to share the gospel with...........................................and I still do.
That sense of being called to affect others with the truths, implications, and applications of scripture has never left me, no matter what roles I have played since then, whether husband, father,
employee, manager, employer, LifeGroup leader, pastoral council member, cluster
leader, or pastor.
So, what calling is always with you, compelling you to do things differently, stirring your passion for God and others in whatever roles you find yourself in?
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| | Posted 11/15/2007 3:48 PM - 10 comments
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