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Outline:
Outline:
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What is our primary calling?
2. How does this affect how our (secondary) calling in work (what we usually label “calling”)?
i) our vocation is not our identity
i) corrects an over or underspiritualised view of work
ii) corrects an over or underspiritualised view of work
ii) helps us handle both success and failure
iii) Helps balance work and rest
iii) “bloom where we are planted” - implies contentment and excellence
Intro:
The topic assigned to me is “Career or Calling”.
I’m guessing Pastor wants me to talk about how our Christian faith is supposed to change how we think about work, jobs, vocation etc.
This is a very important topic.
Just check your schedules.
For adults, most of our waking hours is at work.
Its what we spend most of our time and energy doing.
For those of you who are working, your job/career/profession is where you spend most of your time.
Check ur schedules.
We spend most of our waking hours working.
Its what you do most with your time and energy.
So much so that our job becomes our identity.
Think about how we usually introduce ourselves.
First we’ll state our name and then secondly we’ll state our profession.
By default we think thats who we are and what we we do.
I hate to marginalise certain groups
When I’m talking about working adults I’m also including housewives.
Just because you don’t receive salary doesn’t mean its not a job.
And as I’ll point out later, all work has worth to God.
And I hate to marginalise certain groups.
Housewives are very important and as I’ll point out later, all work has worth to God in this world.
Even if you aren’t working now, you’re still affected by this issue.
And as I’ll point out later, Its very respectable.
Worthy of appreciation and respect.
if you’re a student: yes you’re main focus now is to study.
But the studies that you’re stressed about now are meant to prepare you for your future working life.
If you’re retired: basically you’re benefiting from your lifetime of work
So a Christian view of calling and careers is important and relevant to all.
As always I prefer to expound a passage.
One passage that relates to calling and career is .
A very important word In this passage is the word “called”.
Its used several times e.g “God called them” “you were called” etc.
The word “called” can refer to different things.
But we need to understand what Paul means by “called” or “calling” if not we’ll miss his point.
We need to understand what Paul means by “called” or “calling” if not we’ll miss his point.
How we use the word “called” is not necessarily what Paul means by “called”.
We need to understand what Paul means by “called” or “calling” if not we’ll miss his point.
s in this passage.
To understand what our primary calling is we need to know what the word “called” means in this passage.
Take for example the word “church”.
Nowadays we use the word “church” to refer to the building e.g “Where's prayer meeting?
Oh at church loh!”.
But in the Bible, the church never ever refers to a building.
It always refers to the people.
To the assembly of believers.
Christians are sometimes portrayed like a building e.g we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, we are being built up with Christ as the cornerstone etc.
But thats metaphorical.
Biblically, the “word” church never refers to a literal building.
Thats fine.
There aren’t people at Oxford policing the way we use words.
The meaning of words change over time and based on usage.
We just need to recognise it and adapt.
So its fine if we refer to this building as the church but when we open our Bibles and read “churches”, we must understand its talking about people not buildings.
If not we’ll misinterpret it.
The same thing with the word “called”.
The way the word “called” is always used now is e.g “God called me to be a missionary in Africa” or “I’m called to be an engineer.”
So being an missionary or an engineer is their calling.
Again nothing wrong with that.
But thats not what is meant here.
The word “calling” or “called” is used about 50 times in the NT.
Most of those times “calling” refers to becoming a Christian.
When God calls you, God brings you to faith.
When God calls you, you are saved.
We see this in the first chapter of this letter.
but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God ().
Humans are so sinful that the good news about Jesus dying on the cross will be rejected by our natural minds.
The gospel wasn’t appealing or attractive to either Jews or Gentiles.
Yet why did some believe?
Why did you believe?
Because God graciously opened your eyes and convicted your heart to see and embrace the truth.
You didn’t just hear the preacher call you externally, you heard God calling you internally.
Thats what is meant by “called” here.
And its not as if we deserved to be called by God.
We weren’t better than others.
Paul goes on to write:
Thats why Paul goes on to write:
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called.
Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things...29 so that no one may boast before him.
30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus...Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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You can’t boast at your friend “Eh why you so stupid and don’t believe in Jesus?” “See I’m so smart and spiritual!”
You can’t boast like that.
You weren’t better than your friend or relative when God called you to faith.
You can only stand amazed by His grace.
And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
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Notice all those who are called are justified and glorified.
The New International Version.
(2011).
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Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
Back to the point: If you’re a believer in Jesus, you are called by God.
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