Abstract
Increased efforts to normalize calling within diverse professions have been successful at generating more mainstream acceptance of its premises and purpose, especially in the context of career. Though recognition that calling extends to vocations other than ministers and missionaries bring wider acceptance of the construct, it is often misconstrued as one’s best temporal job fit, rather than a divine purpose through which God intends to accomplish His purposes. From the very acts of creation, God demonstrates that it is only through Him that divine purposes are accomplished. Only God spans the boundary between emptiness and fulness, sinfulness and holiness, humanity and divinity, temporal and eternal to create and recreate; to save and to restore. Scripture is replete with examples of God working in and through others for His salvific purposes. Calling, our holy calling, serves as a conduit through which God continues these boundary spanning acts. It is through this calling and commissioning we fulfill our purpose—God’s purpose.
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Sheehan, Stephanie PhD
(2025)
"Fulfilling Purpose, Calling, and Commissioning through Boundary Spanning,"
The Journal of Biblical Foundations of Faith and Learning: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/jbffl/vol4/iss1/8
