Guinness And J. I. Packer's The Call

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Both Os Guinness and J. I. Packer had similar ideas as presented in the reader for our class. Guinness in his book “The Call” stated that we must rightly order our primary and secondary callings (p. 38), while Packer in his book “Knowing God” demanded that we must know God to shape a foundation for our lives (p. 99). While both are unachievable in their entirety, even the attempt to do both actions is crucial for living better stories as disciples of Christ. Both also are interdependent in that they assist in undergirding each other. Our primary and secondary callings assist us in the understanding of what we as disciples are asked to do. If we do not understand that the employment that God gave us is not our primary task, but our secondary,