Called and Accountable: Discovering Your Place in God’s Eternal Purpose

by Blackaby, Henry T.; Blackaby, Norman C.

• ISBN13: 9781596693524
• ISBN10: 1596693525
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: Stl Distribution North Amer

Summary

Potent, passionate, encouraging, insightful, practical TheBlackabys challenge every follower of Christ to explore the life-transforming, world-changing call that God gives each believer in this bold sequel toExperiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. This anniversary edition contains fresh perspectives bookended by all-new personal testimonies that illustrate God's calling and accountability for all who experience Him. The authors help ordinary individuals to experience the reality that God is still calling them today just as He did in the Bible, to accomplish His eternal purposes. This six-week workbook will help believers answer: What is a call? Who are the called? How am I called? When am I called? and How do I live out the call? The study is ideal for individual or small-group use. A leader DVD is also available and includes teaching sessions with Norman Blackaby as well as vignettes with Norman and Henry providing a retrospective on the past and continuing impact of this study born from the Scriptures.

Author Biography

Henry T. Blackaby is the author of Experiencing God, which has sold more than 7 million copies and has been translated into some 50 languages. He describes Called and Accountable as his sequel to that work. Henry is president of Blackaby Ministries International, an organization he founded to help people experience God in a more intimate way. Born in British Columbia, he has devoted his lifetime to ministry. Norman C. Blackaby, professor at Dallas Baptist University, teaches in the PhD program for the Graduate School of Leadership in addition to Old Testament courses for the Biblical Studies Program. He holds a PhD in biblical backgrounds and archeology. He has served as a senior pastor at two churches and as vice-president of Blackaby Ministries International for six years. In addition, Norman is the coauthor of Experiencing Prayer with Jesus, Encounters with God: Transforming your Bible Study, Called and Accountable: Discovering Your Place in God's Eternal Purpose, Called and Accountable 52-week Devotional, and a contributor to The Blackaby Study Bible and the "Encounters with God" book study series.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. 8
Before You Begin	p. 11
Tenth Anniversary Edition DVD	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Who Are the Called?	p. 18
Testimony	p. 19
All Are Called	p. 21
Completeness of His Call	p. 25
Jesus Equips the Called	p. 29
You Are Important to God!	p. 32
Taking a Spiritual Inventory	p. 36
Testimony	p. 42
Why Does God Call Us?	p. 43
Testimony	p. 44
God's Word Reveals God and His Ways	p. 46
Called: Not for Time, But Eternity	p. 52
The Call of God Requires Character	p. 55
Conformed to the Image of Christ	p. 59
Called, Because He Loves Us!	p. 63
Testimony	p. 67
What Is a Call?	p. 68
Testimony	p. 69
A Call to Relationship	p. 71
The Call Is Redemptive	p. 76
A Call to Mission	p. 80
God Initiates the Call	p. 85
A Call to Obedience	p. 91
Testimony	p. 95
How Am I Called?	p. 97
Testimony	p. 98
Awareness of God's Call	p. 99
Spiritual Senses Developed	p. 105
You Must Clearly Know Him	p. 111
Accountability to God	p. 115
You Must Obey Him	p. 118
Testimony	p. 123
When Am I Called?	p. 124
Testimony	p. 125
Knowing the Call	p. 127
A Daily Walk, Thoroughly Rearranged	p. 132
Completely Enabled	p. 136
Necessity of Functioning in the Body	p. 140
Complete Affirmation	p. 143
Testimony	p. 147
How DQJ Live Out the Call?	p. 149
Testimony	p. 150
Desire to Follow the Call	p. 151
Involving Your Church in the Call	p. 154
Bearing Witness to the Call	p. 158
Daily Living	p. 161
The Joy of Living Out the Call of God	p. 166
Conclusion	p. 171
Leader's Guide	p. 173
Participant/Viewer Notes	p. 187
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