Separate Your Calling From the DetailsShembull

A Case Study

Let me give you a specific example, looking at me. The calling that God has given me, He's called me to help believers succeed at the entrepreneurial calling.

That's the calling that He's given me. The Church for Entrepreneurs is just the implementation details of that particular calling. The calling is not the Church for Entrepreneurs, but the calling is to help believers succeed at their entrepreneurial calling. That's the call that He's given me. Now, the Church for Entrepreneurs is powered by the calling that God has given me. 

If I left the Church for Entrepreneurs, the anointing has also left because now there's nothing actually powering the Church for Entrepreneurs. 

That's why sometimes you'll see that when the founder leaves an organization, the organization doesn't survive, because the organization was built around the calling of the founder. And if the founder leaves, the organization may not be able to survive if it's not somebody else's calling to continue the organization. So what you're called to do is the core; everything else around that is the details. 

Here's how this works by me knowing how to separate my calling from the details. When I see an opportunity that comes to me, I don't ask myself the question, "Should the Church for Entrepreneurs do this?" I ask the question, "Is this part of implementing the calling that God has given me?" 

That's how I judge decisions. I don't judge it by the Church for Entrepreneurs, because remember: the Church for Entrepreneurs is just an implementation detail of what He's actually called me to do of helping believers to achieve their entrepreneurial calling. Getting clear about the core in your own life will help you judge whether or not you should be doing a thing or not doing a thing because by you doing a particular thing, if it doesn't amplify the calling that God has given you, it's probably not what you should be doing. 

If you look at the Church for Entrepreneurs, the Church for Entrepreneurs amplifies my calling. Without the Church for Entrepreneurs, I would have a small effect, but wrapping my calling in the Church for Entrepreneurs amplifies it and allows it to reach thousands of entrepreneurs every single month.

When you're looking at the details, ask yourself the question, "If I do this, does it amplify my calling or does it hinder my calling?" "If I do this, will my calling be able to be fully expressed through these details, or would I have to hide my calling?" And when you start asking questions like this, it makes making decisions clearer because you know what you're called to do, now you're judging the details based on the calling. And you're not looking at the details to say, "That's what I'm called to do." 

So I'm not called to the Church for Entrepreneurs. I'm called to help believers succeed in their entrepreneurial calling. God has constructed the Church for Entrepreneurs around my calling so my calling can be fully expressed on Earth. And so when you start seeing it as separate in those particular ways, it helps you make decisions.

If somebody comes to me and says, "Let's build this software company. Let's co-found it together." I have to ask myself the question, "Okay, I'm good at software, but by me starting a software company, is that going to amplify my calling? Is that going to enable my calling of helping Christian entrepreneurs receive their calling? Is that going to allow my calling to fully manifest and come into existence?" 

If the answer is, "No", I'm not building a software company, even if the software company makes a hundred million dollars, if that's not amplifying my calling, it's going to be hindering my calling.