Your Calling Comes Through Community
God speaks through His people when you stop waiting for the booming voice.
I've been obsessed with one question lately: What does God want me to do next?
After consuming Lester Sumrall and Smith Wigglesworth, I expected God to tell me in some booming voice exactly what to do. I was waiting for the burning bush moment, the Damascus road experience, the undeniable divine download.
Instead, I found myself in a season of unease. Things that felt led by anything other than God ruled themselves out quickly. But that left me in the uncomfortable space of not knowing what comes next.
The fast didn't help. If anything, it intensified the restlessness.
Then I had conversations with Brenda Gentry and Jordan Hall that shifted everything. They helped me see a truth I'd been missing: We discern God's will through ecclesia. Through the body of Christ moving in good faith.
This isn't about committee decisions or democratic voting on God's will. It's about each person in the community earnestly working to be in right relationship with God, seeking to understand His ontology, recognizing that we're relational beings created for community discernment.
The Trinity itself is the ultimate symbol of this. God exists in perfect relationship. It makes sense that discovering His will for our lives would happen in relationship too.
My calling emerges through deep, trusting conversations with other believers who are interested in understanding the full totality of who I am, who I can become, and who God wants me to be. Not just me in isolation, but all of us together seeking His heart.
This is a radically different way to plan your life. When God is your one and only boss, traditional career planning breaks down. You can't just set five-year goals and execute. You have to learn to abide in Him, trust His timing, and discern His voice through His people.
It's disorienting. It takes time to figure out. But I don't want to do anything besides abide in Him and move in ways that could be described as deeply faithful.
There's something beautifully poetic about this process for someone like me. I'm a natural community builder. I feel called to build movements and ecosystems. It makes perfect sense that the details of my next calling would come from community itself.
God doesn't usually work through isolated individuals. He works through His body. The question isn't whether He'll speak, but whether we'll create the conditions to hear Him through each other.
Stop waiting for the booming voice. Start having the deep conversations with people who love God and have your back. Your calling is probably waiting in those conversations.