The book I am writing about is Os Guiness’s The Call, I originally thought that I would have to read this book for my Developing the Christian Mind course but my professor changed her mind. But I was bored one day and decided to pick it up and read for myself. I started reading and became very interested in the book. The book was different in a sense that it had multiple writers contribute to such as Winston Churchill, Nietzsche, Pascal, C. S. Lewis, and Andrew Carnegie. With such a dynamic group of writers along with personal stories and stories of friends I was shown such a broad view of answering the call Christ placed not only on my life but others as well. The books overarching theme is about having one search for their call in their life along with taking a look at one’s personal life and asking what does a true calling look like. Asking all the possible questions that one who is pursuing Christ would encounter. It in fact asks a lot of deep questions that made me think, at …show more content…
The one that impacted me most was chapter 7 titled, “A Time to Stand”, Guiness challenges the reader to look at the lack of recognition the world has around it and challenges the reader to see that our calling is not only personal but it is also should push us to have a cultural outlook and reach out to change the world around us for Christ. My favorite quote from that chapter was from Page 59 which was , “ If so many of us profess to live by the gospel yet are so pathetically marginal to the life of our societies and so nondescript and inconsequential in our individual lives, is there something wrong with gospel, or does the problem lie with us?” This made me evaluate if I was living what I was preaching (literally), and gave me insight on how to live my Christian out