Becoming Project Response Paper
Properly understanding our primary calling allows us to be able to discover the ultimate purpose of our lives. In Rising To The Call, Os Guinness explains what it means to truly grasp the concept of your primary and secondary calling. Guinness explains that “our primary calling as followers of Christ is by him, to him, and for him.” Our secondary calling is our obedience to our primary calling. Guinness refers to our secondary calling in this way, “considering who God is as sovereign, is that everyone, everywhere, and in everything should think, speak, live, and act entirely for him.” In this paper I will explain the importance of applying the knowledge of our primary and secondary calling in order to grasp how
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Most people in our society today take the term “Christian” and twist it into many different things. Christians are looked at as judgmental or hypocritical, which only turns people away. Some believers actually do portray themselves in a manner that is not of God, however, they like to consider themselves as Christians so that they can seem like a good person. Others genuinely desire to live out the life of Christ and strive to be different as Jesus has instructed them to be. Either way, people who are lost in the ways of this world cannot understand the truth of what a Christian is supposed to exemplify. Christians were essentially “little Christ’s” which means that, as Christians, we are to do, say, and act like Jesus Christ would. I think that having a depth of knowledge in understanding the role that our primary calling plays in our lives also allows us to live out this name that we have been given. Although it is important to grasp what it means to have a primary calling, it is just as important to act on it. Guinness describes calling this way – he says, “Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion, dynamism, and direction lived out as a response to his summons and