The Calling Journey: Mapping the Stages of a Leader's Life Call - A Coaching Guide
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Ever wish you had a road map to follow to your God-given destiny?
The Calling Journey is just such a map, revealing the common stages and transitions leaders go through on the pathway to their call. As you read what successful leaders from all walks of life experienced on the destiny road, you'll gain an amazing perspective on how God is leveraging everything in your own story to make his dream for you come true. Along the way, you'll learn how to identify key stages in your own journey and build a personal calling timeline. When you discover what God's agenda is for each stage, you can lean into what he is doing in you instead of fighting the process.
Developed by a master leadership coach, the timeline model emerged from comparing the life stories of biblical characters to those of contemporary leaders. Through hundreds of coaching encounters, plus extensive interviews with Christian leaders in business, ministry, politics and other spheres, Tony discovered that God takes each of us through predictable stages of upward growth separated by "valleys" of adversity and inner formation. While we tend to view the difficult times in the valleys as failures or detours, Tony shows how they form a vital part of God's strategy for leadership development. Just as Joseph's repeated betrayal and elevation birthed the life message that is his greatest legacy ("You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good"), The Calling Journey shows how the Great Redeemer transforms times of heartache into the seedbed of a world-changing life.
The Calling Journey depicts four stages and three valleys on an easy-to-understand graphical timeline. Dozens of personal stories (along with tales of historical and biblical travelers) bring the journey to life. Coupled with an innovative understanding of call as the unique way Jesus is incarnated in us by our story, this in-depth look at the purpose of life reveals how God truly is good all the time.
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- Compares the life stories of biblical characters to those of contemporary leaders
- Shows how to create a personalized map of the journey to the readers calling: a Calling Timeline
- Helps to get a big-picture view of the road and to visualize the twists and turns on a cross-country trip
Creating Your Timeline
- Joseph's Calling Journey
- Reading the Calling Map
- The Story of Mother Teresa
- Mapping Your Journey
Understanding Your Timeline
- Natural Promotion
- The Valley of Dependence
- The Preparation Stage
- The Valley of Wholeness
- The Day of Release
- Finding Life Messages
- The Releasing Stage
- The Valley of Identity
- The Fulfillment Stage
- Coaching the Journey
You rocked my world - and nailed my middle age. This addresses the culmination of my journey - stepping up and risking my future on God's identity. [I must] give up my illusion of myself as still having enough game to run with the entrepreneurial crowd and risk who I am on God working through me as a coach/chair for Convene. I cannot find any convenient mental myths that allow me to dismiss the reality of taking the risk to do what God has called me to do. Thank you, friend!!
Steve Tucker, Convene Chair
I cried the first time I saw my life on The Calling Journey timeline. The visual made it undeniable that God has orchestrated seasons and experiences to shape my life for others. It put events and seasons of life in perspective. What I'd thought was senseless suffering and failure was actually His way of making me the man I was born to be so that I could do the task I was born to do. Thank you!
Jeff Williams, Grace and Truth Relationship Education
The Calling Journey gave me incredible insights into my life which allowed me to understand more of who God is and how He works. Thank you, Tony.
Lisa Schultz, Office of the Senate Chaplain
[The timeline] has brought great encouragement to me that nothing is wasted in God's economy... It has inspired a new sense of hope to see the mighty hand of my loving heavenly Father through it all . . . I am thankful to Kathy and Tony for being there during a deep valley where nothing made sense. We came back out with a much different view and were even thankful for it all! I look forward to the next peak, and I'm not afraid of the journey it will take to get there.
Amy Heilman
The timeline that Tony presents is amazing. It helped me to understand so many things and make sense of why the Lord takes us through the things He does.
Raeann Fitz, Certified Life Coach
The Calling Journey timeline is a fantastic visual tool to use with people in helping them understand the season they are in. Tony makes it so easy for people to grasp where they are on their calling journey and thus respond in the best way possible.
Janine Mason, Dreamvesting
As one who has often struggled to make sense of the many twists and turns of my life, The Calling Journey helped me to see these events from the larger vantage point of God's purposes... one of the greatest truths that emerges is that, through all the ups and downs of our life, God's primary focus is on the shaping of who we are in preparation for what he has called us to do.
David Smith, Businessman