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

Year 1998
Type Book
Genre discipleship
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For anyone asking what their life is for, especially people in mid-career or at a crossroads; a reflective book, not a career manual.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 5 of 5 essential
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 2 of 5 moderate

His best-loved book: calling as the central purpose of life, first to God and then to our work, in short reflective chapters.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 4 of 5
Sociological 2 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Guinness's best-known book, published by Word in 1998 and later by Thomas Nelson, which issued a 20th anniversary edition expanded with four new chapters. It is a book on vocation: that each person is called by God, first to God himself and only then to particular work, and that this calling gives life its central purpose. It is built of short chapters, each a reflection on one aspect of calling, drawing on figures from history and literature. An abridged version, Rising to the Call, followed. It is the most widely read of his books and the one most readers come to first.

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