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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?
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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…”
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1 Pt 2:9-10 “God has called you out of darkness into his own
marvelous light”
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