All of our materials are founded upon the following biblical standpoints:
Our primary calling is to respond to the call to faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. No occupational calling to a specific job or mission can come before living out the first calling Jesus gave to you: believe and follow Him, living a faithful life, abiding by the truth of the Bible, and making disciples (sharing the gospel message and actively helping others grow in their faith). After all, how can you really know your "calling" if you don't know the God who calls you or why He calls you (to bring you closer to Him (Acts 17:24-28), so your heart is transformed into one that praises and glorifies Him.
Once we are reconciled with God by grace through faith, we are able to return to the first calling we received in Genesis 1:28: to be fruitful and multiply, and rule and subdue the earth, reigning with Christ through the good works he prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).
Our understanding of the gospel is this: God created a perfect world and invited His children to rule over it with Him and for Him (see Genesis 1), but we sinned, ushering in the curse that broke every part of creation, subjecting it to fruitlessness and frustration (see Genesis 3), ensuring our need for a savior. So God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, to live the perfect life we could not and bear all our punishment on Himself through His death, burial, and resurrection, defeating the curse of sin and death. This now makes it possible for us to be reconciled to God by grace through faith in Jesus. While we are not saved by good works, we Have been saved by God to be able to participate in the good works He prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:8-10), partnering with Him to cultivate heaven on earth until comes back to makes it’s redemption complete, when the triune God will dwell with us again on a new earth, where we will rule with Him and for Him forever (Revelation 21:1-4).
While the Bible says that God is the giver of every good and perfect thing (James 3:16-18) and that God wants us to ask and receive His provision and care (Matthew 7:7-11), we firmly resist the "prosperity gospel" that essentially claims that Jesus died a brutal death on the cross so that I could receive all the health, wealth, and happiness we want. This view refutes the truth that Jesus died and rose again so that he could bear the punishment we deserve for the sins that render me unable to have eternal life with God without Jesus' atonement as a perfect sacrifice. Jesus did say that He came so that, "we may have life, and life to the full" in John 10:10, but I believe that in light of Jesus’s promise that “you will have suffering in this world” (John 16:33), this "life to the full" is describing the inner spiritual joy that comes from the eternal hope we have in Christ, not always material possessions or worldly happiness. My point: at The Called Career, we do not help people steward their careers for their own gain, because that reward is fleeting. Rather, we do work for the hope of glorifying God (1 Cor 10:31) and one day hearing, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:23).
Our primary calling is to respond to the call to faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. No occupational calling to a specific job or mission can come before living out the first calling Jesus gave to you: believe and follow Him, living a faithful life, abiding by the truth of the Bible, and making disciples (sharing the gospel message and actively helping others grow in their faith). After all, how can you really know your "calling" if you don't know the God who calls you or why He calls you (to bring you closer to Him (Acts 17:24-28), so your heart is transformed into one that praises and glorifies Him.
Once we are reconciled with God by grace through faith, we are able to return to the first calling we received in Genesis 1:28: to be fruitful and multiply, and rule and subdue the earth, reigning with Christ through the good works he prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).
Our understanding of the gospel is this: God created a perfect world and invited His children to rule over it with Him and for Him (see Genesis 1), but we sinned, ushering in the curse that broke every part of creation, subjecting it to fruitlessness and frustration (see Genesis 3), ensuring our need for a savior. So God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, to live the perfect life we could not and bear all our punishment on Himself through His death, burial, and resurrection, defeating the curse of sin and death. This now makes it possible for us to be reconciled to God by grace through faith in Jesus. While we are not saved by good works, we Have been saved by God to be able to participate in the good works He prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:8-10), partnering with Him to cultivate heaven on earth until comes back to makes it’s redemption complete, when the triune God will dwell with us again on a new earth, where we will rule with Him and for Him forever (Revelation 21:1-4).
While the Bible says that God is the giver of every good and perfect thing (James 3:16-18) and that God wants us to ask and receive His provision and care (Matthew 7:7-11), we firmly resist the "prosperity gospel" that essentially claims that Jesus died a brutal death on the cross so that I could receive all the health, wealth, and happiness we want. This view refutes the truth that Jesus died and rose again so that he could bear the punishment we deserve for the sins that render me unable to have eternal life with God without Jesus' atonement as a perfect sacrifice. Jesus did say that He came so that, "we may have life, and life to the full" in John 10:10, but I believe that in light of Jesus’s promise that “you will have suffering in this world” (John 16:33), this "life to the full" is describing the inner spiritual joy that comes from the eternal hope we have in Christ, not always material possessions or worldly happiness. My point: at The Called Career, we do not help people steward their careers for their own gain, because that reward is fleeting. Rather, we do work for the hope of glorifying God (1 Cor 10:31) and one day hearing, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:23).
