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

Os Guinness

Thomas Nelson, Oct 7, 2003 - Religion - 304 pages

The Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose. Best-selling author Os 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? Guinness now helps the reader discover answers to these questions, and more, through a corresponding workbook - perfect for individual or group study.

According to Guinness, "No idea short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose and fulfillment." With tens of thousands of readers to date, The Call is for all who desire a purposeful, intentional life of faith.

Also availbale in audio format, narrated by Os Guinness.

What people are saying

User Review  - Thomas Brubaker - Christianbook.com

I find this book to very eye opening about our calling. There is an audience of one that we should concerned about. And that "One" is God. He is the "Caller" and we are the "called." Os Guinness is an ...

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - erikssonfamily - LibraryThing

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 ...

Contents

• The Ultimate: 1
• The Haunting Question: 17
• By Him to Him for: 36
• A Time to Stand: 54
• The Audience of: 68
• Where the Buck Stops There Stand I: 83
• Followers of the: 101
• What Is That to You?: 119
• Combating the Noonday Demon: 137
• Locked Out and Staying There: 153
• Dreamers of the: 172
• Patches of Godlight: 183
• Let All Your Thinks Be Thanks: 193
• Everybodys Fools: 202
• The Hour Has Come: 213
• Last Call: 224
• Acknowledgments: 236

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
• Author: Os Guinness
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson, 2003
• ISBN: 1418514683, 9781418514686
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Life / General