The God who saves is the God who calls and commissions us to a ministry of reconciliation; and in that call and commission, God wants to unleash the unique constellations of talents and experiences that make me who I’ve become. When the distinct amalgam of my history—including its traumas and wounds—intersects with the renewing power of the Spirit, a chemical reaction of possibility awaits. That possibility is a calling: the “good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life” (Eph. 2:10). Each of us is a singular poiēma, Paul tells us: a unique, original, one-off work of art
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