Radiant Church: Claim your calling

Sermon By Pastor Corky Calhoun

I hope everyone had a chance to either see live or listen to Janice's sermon form this past Sunday, it was truly exceptional. The fact is "Following" and "Calling" are intertwined. People hear the word "Calling" and they immediately think of the person who sells all their stuff and moves to Africa, lives in a hut, boiling your dinner in an open caldron and oh yea sharing the gospel. And there are in fact some who do just this. The truth is we have twisted this concept of "Calling" to only include professional Christians or Zealots. If this is true then Radiance is in the hands of only a few and this I assure you was not the plan Jesus had in mind. When the sermon planning team planned this series and titled this sermon it was originally called, "Find Your Calling". But the more I thought and prayed about it, it hit me; if we are saved by Grace then our calling doesn't need to be found as if we had misplaced it, it's already present we just need to claim it. We need to own it! We need to respond to it! The call has already come! I believe Calling is not optional for a believer in Jesus, it's a command that demands a response. There are only three things you can do in response to those words uttered by Jesus when he said "come follow me"; we either accept it, ignore it, or neglect it. Only one of these things will make you Radiant! So join us Sunday as we continue to look at our calling to be a radiant city on a hill. And also we will celebrate Mothers Day with all the ladies of our church!