BIBLE PASSAGES FOR REFLECTION AND STUDY
Personal calling stories
The call of Abraham (Gen 12.1-3)
The call of Samuel (1 Sam 3.1-10)
The call of Isaiah (Is 6.1-8)
The call of the first disciples (Mk 1.16, Mt 4.18, Lk 5.1-10, Jn 2.35-42)
Calls to belong
Being children of God (Mt 5.9, 1 Jn 3.1)
The body & its members (1 Cor 12.12-26)
The early Church (Acts 2.43-47)
Gifts and talents
The gifts of the Spirit (Rom 12.3-8 / 1 Cor 12.4-11 / Eph 4.11-16)
The parable of the talents (Mt 25.14-30)
Our gifts are from God (1 Pet 4.10-11, 2)
Hard callings
The call of Jonah (Jonah (all of it))
Paul wrestles with himself! (Rom 7.15-24_)
The cost of discipleship (Mt 8.18-22, Mk 8.34)
Work and life
Working as if for God (Col 3.23)
Mary and Martha (Lk 10.38-42)
What’s worth working for? (Jn 6.27-29)
Tilling the land (Gen 2.15 / Gen 3.17-18)
Being sent out
The great commission (Mt 28.16-20)
Jesus’ own calling (Luke 4.16-21)
BOOKS ON VOCATION
John Adair - How to Find your Vocation (Canterbury Press 2000)
Stuart Buchanan - On Call (BRF 2001)
Maria Boulding - A Touch of God (Triangle 1988)
Catron, Janice - God’s vision, our calling (Westminster / John Knox Press, 2003)
Os Clarke - The Call (Spring Harvest 2001)
Henri Nouwen - The Road to Daybreak (DLT 1989)
Dewar, Francis - Invitations: God’s calling for everyone (SPCK, 1996)
Dewar, Francis - Live for a change: Discovering and using your gifts (DLT, 1988)
Dewar, Francis - Called or collared: An alternative approach to vocation
Huggett, Joyce - Listening to God (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, 2005)
Hughes, Gerard - God of surprises (DLT, 1996)
Walton, Steve - A call to live (Triangle, 1994)
Rowan Williams - ‘Vocation (1)’ and ‘Vocation (2)’ in Open to Judgement: Sermons and Addresses London: Darton Longman & Todd, 1994. pp. 171-177 & 178-184.
Rowan Williams - ‘Vocation’ in The Way Ahead: Church of England Schools in the New Millennium (GS 1406) London: Church House Publishing, 2001. pp.91-92.
BOOKS ON LICENSED LAY MINISTRY
Headley, Carolyn - Readers and Worship in the Church of England (Grove booklets no.
W115, available from Grove Books Ltd Ridley Hall Road Cambridge. CB3 9HU.
Nappin, Pat et al - Bridging the Gap (available from Central Readers Council, Church House
Great Smith Street, London SW1 3NZ)
BOOKS ON ORDINATION & PRIESTHOOD
Christopher Cocksworth & Rosalind Brown - Being a priest today (Canterbury Press, 2002)
Robin Greenwood - Transforming priesthood (SPCK, 1994)
Michael Ramsey - The Christian priest today (SPCK 1972, 1985 etc)