A call is what you would do for nothing that others would not do for any amount of money.

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (Jer 29:13).

“God chooses, or elects, people for service. No one in the Old Testament is elected because of greatness (see Deuteronomy 7:7-8), nor does God elect an individual to shower him with blessings. Election is by the grace of God, and it is for the purpose of service to others,” Waylon Bailey, As You Go: Biblical Foundations for Evangelism, 11-12.

“He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Mic. 6:8).

“A culture of violence,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans after two people were killed and fourteen injured in a series of gun battles Halloween night.

“One day soon you will hear that I am dead. Do not believe it. I will then be alive as never before,” American evangelist Dwight L. Moody near the end of his life.

“This is the end, but for me it is the beginning of life,” Dietrich Bonhoeffer shortly before he was executed by the Nazis.

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