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Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN13: 9780849944376
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose. Best-selling author Os Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, my concepts of success? Guinness now helps the reader discover answers to these questions, and more, through a corresponding workbook - perfect for individual or group study. According to Guinness, No idea short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose and fulfillment. With tens of thousands of readers to date, The Call is for all who desire a purposeful, intentional life of faith. Also availbale in audio format, narrated by Os Guinness.
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| THE CALL by Os Guiness |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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An instant classic and a must read for all those seeking the truth of why they are here.
Os is an outstanding writer and an effective communicator.
I have purchase several copies as gifts for other seekers.
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| Best book if you are lost for God's calling |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This book comprehensively defines what "Calling" really means to Christian. Often even Christians are confused between "Calling" and self-fulfillment/self-actualization. Calling means much bigger than a personal scope. This book really helped me look at my life from God's perspective. The book highlights the lists of God's people and shows what it means to be called by God. My life is for Jesus not the other way around. Before reading this book, I have always asked myself what will make me feel meaningful and happy; however, after reading this book, I am asking God that "Lord, what gives you the most pleasure when you think of me?" This was a great step to get closer to him. I strongly recommend anyone who is struggling with life's tougest queston. Essentially, You have two birthdays. There is the day when you are born into the world; and the day when you discover why you were born into the world.
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| Excellent |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This book was in excellent condition although it had been used. I had no problems whatsoever with it. Greatly taken-care of.
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| Good Book on the Importance of Fulfilling the Call |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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This is a good, not great, book about finding your calling. If you are interested in seeking your calling, you should give this one a try. Guinness has solid theology and is a talented writer. However, this one was not one of my favorites. I found it hard to focus on this book as much of it was either basic or repetitive. There is valuable information here, but in my opinion this book did not seem to reach its full potential.
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| a good meditation on the meaning that our creator gives us |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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It is not uncommon to hear Christians refer to their vocational calling, or to hear of things like a Biblical work ethic, but surprisingly little has been written about what work individuals are called to in their lives. Os Guinness, an Irish social critic and Christian writer, who lives in northern Virginia, has written a wonderful book, more than accessible to general audiences, that explores meaning in life. In this case, meaning for Guinness is not something self-directed, but something one is called to from God, as a maker directs and leads his created beings.
This book, at nearly 250 pages, is probably best read a chapter a day or so; because it is as much a meditation on calling, as it is a directed narrative for the reader to study. The reason for this method becomes obvious, as Guinness wants the reader to join with him and more importantly, with the God who created them, in thinking and working out daily what it means to have meaning and calling in whatever the reader has, is and will do in life. As such, this most definitely is not a self-help book, or a list of things to do. It is a meditation on how to live and what the good life looks like. There is a tension between life as a Christian believer and as someone living in a world with different expectations, and Guinness encourages thought, that as people live with these tensions, that the remember their first calling.
Guinness chapters follow a pattern of a narrative of a historical story, even from his family's Guinness Irish heritage, where he then makes points that build on the story for the sake of the reader to ponder and act on their place in God's world. He is at his strongest when he encourages readers to develop an awareness of the difference between the certainty of a call and the mystery of calling in life; and he carefully evaluates the seeming tight line between a spiritual work and a day to day, secular work. Mystery, gratitude, patience and understanding the reader's place in the world are vital things that Guinness wants the reader to dwell on. If there is a major theme of the book, it is that the reader is to live and work for an audience of one in life, the God who made them; and because of that audience much of the meaning soon will follow.
For Guinness, the path of calling is God to meaning to call to callings, otherwise life is described as mere drudgery work, and empty in its results. As a work of meditation and thinking, the reader should be encouraged and challenged to evaluate their lives and occupations in light of their audience of one. This is not a definitive work on vocational callings, and it has little in the way of direct answers for life in the post modern world. But what it will do, is to encourage the reader to think of the first things of life and dwell in those, for the eventual sake of their individual callings. Fewer things probably occupy people more than what they are about in their work. Guinness calls the reader to consider a higher view of their occupations as callings, given meaning by a creator, who wants us to interact with him in the midst of what he made us for.
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