“Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called…”

Ephesians 4:1

If you knew you had a calling by God into a specific role, would you want to know? Would you want to understand it? And then I presume you would want to walk worthy of it. So, in 50 words or less, define your calling you have been called into.

Or, name a speaker or preacher who has helped you define this calling, perhaps from this passage?

Or, name a book that explains your Ephesians 4:1 calling which you must walk worthy of?

Here is the point. Paul knew the calling. Paul labored to explain the calling for 3 chapters before this. It is not general, your calling. It is not your salvation either, because that got finished around the first half of chapter 1. Your and my calling is the basis of our existence, and getting it right makes the rest of the Christian journey work and make sense. Especially the corporate, group dynamic we are called into. Without a firm grasp of the calling, the people, the body, does not have the tools to actually be a body together. That is why Paul doesn’t talk about the group until chapter 4, after he has defined the calling. For those curious on what the calling is, here is your study clue: the last sentence of Ephesians 1, Ephesians 2, and Ephesians 3. There is more, but it’s a good set of hangers. We will discuss these over the next posts. For now, can you define the calling that the Christian has been saved for, saved to, and called from the world for and called from the world to from those closing verses? Huge hint: it is not evangelism, else Paul would have said so at those key verses. So, what is it? More to come…