What Is My Calling?
- Christian Living
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Baker Academic (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2022
FritzSearch.com earns a commission on purchases made through Bookshop.org links.
Publisher's Description
Many people are confused about God's call on their lives. What does it mean to have a calling? Is everyone called to something? This book clears up the confusion and articulates a whole-life vision for calling. Our calling is not a mystery waiting to be discovered but applies to a range of experiences and challenges: we are called to faithfulness in Christ in every dimension of our lives. The authors defend a thoroughly biblical and theological understanding of calling, empowering Christians to live faithfully as God's people in whatever circumstances they find themselves.
Endorsements (4)
“In an age when many Christians think of ‘calling’ in a mysterious, individualistic, and job-oriented way, Klein and Steiner bring us back to the essence of biblical calling—believers are called in Christ to be the people of God and to live accordingly before the Lord and in community with one another. Returning to this central sense of calling can be refreshing, life enhancing, and transformative for Christians who struggle with confusion or even the fear that they have missed God’s calling for their lives. I heartily recommend this book.”
“Like many other Christian notions, ‘calling’ is plagued by ambiguity. Its popular understanding is imprecise, and the term is often conveniently used to affirm our self-appointed vocations. Without God, a call is merely a task done ostensibly in Christ’s name. We cannot handle calling so glibly; it is too essential. Using top-shelf biblical and theological insight, Klein and Steiner provide a gracious and uncompromising course correction. They underline the mission that is common to all believers: God the caller has invited us into fellowship with Christ and commissioned us to glorify him. I commend What Is My Calling? to all who desire biblical and theological clarity on their divine purpose.”
“The desire to understand one’s calling is particularly important for students in Bible colleges and seminaries, so this book is a must-read for their professors and mentors. However, this study shows that calling is also a crucial issue for every believer. Drawing the meaning of calling directly from the New Testament, Klein and Steiner show that our calling is in Christ, and they place it in the context of corporate identity and character rather than in a specific ministry, job, task, or role. They provide relevant and pragmatic applications for living out our call as well as healthy correctives to past and present misunderstandings of calling.”
“Does God promise to call you if he wants you in ministry? Does one receive a calling to a secular job? What if I have a great opportunity that sounds like something I would enjoy and am good at and that would help the Lord’s work, but I have never had the slightest feeling of a calling? Are any of these questions even legitimate when judged by the Bible’s usage of the concept of calling? Klein and Steiner draw on years of study and ministry to set the record straight. Their answers should encourage many, many Christians, while challenging some who have spoken wrongly on these matters. This is must-reading for anyone who cares about God’s will for their life.”
See something wrong on this page? Report a problem