Introducing World Missions, 2nd Edition
A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey
series: Encountering Mission
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9. First Steps: Have You Been Called?
Discussion Questions
- What misunderstandings about God’s call do you most often hear?
- Why does God not always use a direct and clear call to full-time Christian service?
- If you have sensed a call from God, describe it and what you think it means for you.
- What factors are important for a local church when it seeks to verify a call to mission in one of its members?
- How would you respond to this statement: “I really want to serve God by ministering cross-culturally, but I just have never felt God’s call”?
- Imagine you work for a mission agency and have been asked to develop a policy to be used as a guide for interviewing prospective missionaries about their understanding and sense of call to mission. What elements would you consider absolutely essential to the policy you have been asked to create?
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