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MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- Few spiritual concepts have fascinated and confused people more than understanding God's calling for their lives. Is it primarily about a job or a role? Is it precise or general? Is a calling only reserved for those who work in professional ministry? These are the questions Gary Barkalow sets out to answer in his latest book, It's Your Call: What Are You Doing Here?

Barkalow contends that, while the search for meaning and purpose in life is universal, Christ offers a higher calling to everyone who places their faith in Him. Christians can know and understand the calling God has placed upon their lives and discover their true selves in Him.

Barkalow explains that many people live in a fog of confusion and dullness because their authenticity and purpose in life has been assaulted by a world compelled to explain everything with scientific facts. All human emotion and all meaning and purpose in life have become categorized as mere chemical reactions within the brain. Greater disillusionment has come from within the church itself and the belief that there is a difference between those called to the sacred positions of leadership versus the layman seeking to live a faithful and moral life. If that weren't enough, still others feel they must discover their unique gifts and that their value in the Kingdom will be determined by how they use those gifts. Purpose and calling in life cannot be defined merely by a job, education, or financial success. It's Your Call offers three "navigational" points, as it were, for people to use in order to better understand and know the purpose of their life journeys:

• Story: There is more going on than we can see, the stakes are higher than we've been told, and we are far more than we believe. The theme of our life is overcoming and becoming. 
   
• Desire: What you were created to do in the Greater Story is what you most want to do -- it is written on your heart in the form of your desires. "It is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him." (Phil. 2:13 ISV)
   
• Journey: We must always remember that there is a process, a progression, a journey that every person must take in the process of becoming who they truly are and in recognizing the role they are to play.

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