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    Called: Following a Future Filled with the Possible
    Called: Following a Future Filled with the Possible
    Called: Following a Future Filled with the Possible
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    Called: Following a Future Filled with the Possible

    By John David Walt

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    A “called” life means many things for many people. It can

    literally take the form of any job under the sun. It might mean

    serving as the pastor of a church. It might mean serving as a

    member of Congress. To embrace the “called” life does not

    narrow the scope of the future. It opens up the horizon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAsbury Seedbed Publishing
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781628241266
    Called: Following a Future Filled with the Possible

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      Called - John David Walt

      Called:?!

      Called:?!

      FOLLOWING A FUTURE FILLED WITH THE POSSIBLE

      J. D. Walt

      CALLED:?! FOLLOWING A FUTURE FILLED WITH THE POSSIBLE

      Copyright 2011, 2014 by Seedbed Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

      Printed in the United States of America

      Print ISBN: 978-1-62824-124-2

      Mobi ISBN: 978-1-62824-125-9

      ePub ISBN: 978-1-62824-126-6

      uPDF ISBN: 978-1-62824-043-6

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible®. Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Cover and page design by Stephanie Wright

      For my Mom and Dad, whose lives helped me hear.

      JDW

      Contents

      PREFACE

      1. From Darkness to Light

      2. From Death to Life

      3. To a Life of Extraordinary Epiphany

      4. From Ladder-Climbing to Cross-Descending

      5. From How Much Do I Give? to How Much Do I Keep?

      6. From Dutiful Discipline to an Abiding Desire

      7. From Saving the World to Serving My Friends

      8. From a Predictable Life to Leaving the Building

      9. To a Continuous Process Filled with Moments of Crisis

      10. To Believe the Impossible

      11. From Self-Assuredness to God-Confidence

      12. From a Power Position to a Humble Place

      13. From One who Talks to One who Hears

      14. From Outward Appearances to Inner Person

      15. From Disillusionment to Insight

      16. From I Can’t Do It’ to There’s a Fire in My Bones"

      17. From a Static Job Description to a Series of Divine Assignments

      18. From a Hopeless Situation to a Hopeful Preparation

      19. From Ordinary Faithfulness to Extravagent Obedience

      20. From the Scripted Life to the Stories that Matter

      21. To the Future of the Possible

      EPILOGUE

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Called:

      FOLLOWING A FUTURE FILLED WITH THE POSSIBLE

      This little book will help you because we designed it for you. Like so many others, you hold deep within you a sense of purpose for your life, even a sense of destiny. Something tucked away in the recesses of your soul will not be quiet. Even the whisper of this voice reminds you that your life was meant for something more.

      You are called.

      I remember wrestling with this as a law student. My career plans were unfolding nicely. My resume shined with promise. All seemed right on track, but something told me I was on the wrong track. A new song stirred in my heart and I had no idea what to do with it.

      I made an appointment with the pastor of the church I attended. After listening to me talk for five or six minutes, a look came over his face—one that said, I know exactly what you need. He made a beeline for the bookshelf, where he pulled a gigantic three-ring binder and set it in my lap. OMG! I thought. He told me I would need to enter into a process where I would be assigned a mentor (that would not be him) who would supervise me as I answered all the questions in this gauntlet of a manual. After that would come a two- or three-year process of waiting, which would likely involve a graduate degree in theological education.

      I left his office scratching my head. He validated the sense of calling happening within me. But he wrongly assumed this necessarily meant I wanted to do what he was doing. Because of my strong spiritual pulse, I guess he assumed I was called to be an ordained minister.

      In retrospect, I guess he was right. Today I serve as an ordained minister. His approach to me, however, was all wrong. I needed my pastor to be a mentor. Instead, he gave me a manual that came with an institutional supervisor.

      Somewhere in the ensuing season I met a campus minister who invited me into a journey which looked a lot more like the landscape of this little book. He knew I wasn’t searching for a

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