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Discipleship : Call, Response
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Old Testament
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Gen 12:1-4 Call of Abram: Leave
your country, your family, and come…
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Exo 3:1-6, 9-12 Call of Moses: I
shall be with you…
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1 Sam 3:1-10 Call of Samuel: Speak,
O Lord, your servant is listening
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1 Kgs 19:16, 19-21 Call of Elisha:
Elisha rose up and followed Elijah
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Isa 5:6-8 Call of Isaiah: Whom
shall I send? Who will go for us?
§ Isa 42:6-7 “I have called you…I
have grasped you by the hand…To open the eyes of the blind”
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Isa 43:3 “I have called you by
name, you are mine
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Isa 45:4 “I have called you by your
name…though you knew me not”
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Isa 49:1 “The Lord called me from
birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name.”
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Jer 1:4-10 The call of Jeremiah
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Jer 20: 7-9 Response of Jeremiah:
It seemed like a fire burning in my heart
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Jer 29: 11-14 “I know well the
plans I have in mind for you”
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Hos 2:21-22 “I will espouse you in
fidelity…”
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New Testament
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Mt 9: 35-38 The harvest is rich but
the laborers are few
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Mt 19: 16-30 The Rich Young Man
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Mk 1:16-20 The Call of the first
disciples
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Mk 3:13 The Mission of the Twelve:
“He summoned those whom he wanted and they came to him”
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Mk 10: 17-27 Go and sell everything
you own and follow me
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Mk 10:28-30 You will be repaid a
hundred times over
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Lk 1:26-56 The Annunciation: Mary’s
call
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Lk 14:25-33 Any who do not carry
their cross and come after me cannot be my disciple
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Jn 1:35-51 The call of the first
disciples: “Come and see”
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Jn 10:2-3 “the sheep hear his
voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out”
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Jn 15:9-17 You did not choose me;
no, I chose you
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Rm 1:6 “among whom are you also,
who are called to belong to Jesus Christ”
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Rm 8:28 “all things work for good
for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose”
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Rm 11:29 “For the gifts and the
call of God are irrevocable”
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1 Cor 1: 26-31 “Not many of you
were wise…Rather God chose the foolish…”
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Gal 1:15 “God, who from my mother’s
womb, had set me apart and called me through his grace”
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Eph 1: 3-14 “To be holy and
spotless and to live through love in His presence”
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Php 3: 10-14 “to know him and the
power…forgetting what lies behind…”
§ 1 Pt 2:9-10 “God has called you out
of darkness into his own marvelous light”
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