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    The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
    The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
    The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
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    The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

    Written by Os Guinness

    Narrated by Os Guinness

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    Bestselling author Os Guinness dives deeper in this teaching lecture produced out of Park Cities Presbyterian church in Dallas, Texas. continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose.

    Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, my concepts of success?

    According to Guinness, "No idea short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose and fulfillment."

    Narrated by Os Guinness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 21, 2012
    ISBN9781418591588
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    Os Guinness

    Os Guinness is an author and speaker living in the Washington, D.C., area. Born in China during World War II, Guinness left in 1951, after the Chinese Revolution. A graduate of the University of London and Oxford, Guinness is a former visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including The Call, Invitation to the Classics, and Long Journey Home. A frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Guinness has lectured at many universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Stanford, and has often spoken on Capitol Hill.

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    • 3/5
      The book was designed to be read "chapter a day." I found that this approach worked well because some ideas seemed redundant. Also, I read the book during my first summer of seminary. The book doesn't shape your vision so much as it encourages you to follow your calling and submit your will to the will of God. I would recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to understand their purpose or thinking about changing their occupation.

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    • 5/5
      Loved the way this is presented with the Q&A from the audience. It is a great summation of his book The Call.
    • 5/5
      Engaging, even prophetic, set of 3 hour-long lectures delivered by Guinness himself recently at a church in Dallas distilling the major points, proofs, and stories in the book, accompanied by Q&A.
    • 2/5
      I think the reason I didn't like it was that it was different than my expectations. Based on the blurb I'd read from CMDA, I thought this would be a book to help a person discover what or where their calling was. The introductory chapters only touched on this subject if they addressed it at all and I gave up a few chapters in because the book didn't seem to be helping me answer the questions that I had.
    • 5/5
      This book should be read more than once by anyone who is in or aspires to be on mission for the Lord, whether in a local church, or as a missionary.