Live Your Purpose: A Three Step Model

by Keith Oglesby

Publisher:

Keith Oglesby

, 2023

Overview

Live Your Purpose offers a practical and inspiring guide to help young adults, college students, and middle-aged individuals identify their calling and choose a fulfilling career. It draws on years of research findings and principles of human development to present a three-step model that can help readers navigate the complexities of career choice and align their vocational goals with God’s calling.

The book is grounded in scripture and presents a refreshing perspective on vocational discernment that will appeal to Christians of all denominations. Your writing style is clear and accessible, making this book a valuable resource for parents, youth pastors, and anyone who works with young people.

The three-step model outlined in the book is both practical and effective, providing readers with a clear roadmap for discovering their unique calling and pursuing a career that aligns with their values and passions. Its emphasis on the importance of faith, character, and purpose in career choice makes this book a valuable tool for anyone seeking to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Live Your Purpose is an excellent resource for anyone seeking to discern God’s calling and pursue a career that aligns with their values and passions. This book can significantly assist students, and the parents, youth pastors, or camp directors mentoring students, in navigating the challenges of career choice and find their path to purpose.

Key Features

• Helps young adults identify their calling and choose a fulfilling career.
• Presents a refreshing perspective on vocational discernment.
• Emphasizes on the importance of faith, character, and purpose in career choice.

Contents

• SECTION ONE – THE HISTORY OF VOCATIONAL CALLING
• CHAPTER ONE Three Scenarios
• CHAPTER TWO The Historical and Theological Perspective of Calling
• CHAPTER THREE The Theoretical and Sociological Perspective of Calling
• SECTION TWO - PASSION
• CHAPTER FOUR Passion: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective
• CHAPTER FIVE What Passion Tells Us About People
• CHAPTER SIX The Dualistic Model of Passion
• CHAPTER SEVEN Steps to Discovering Your Passion
• CHAPTER EIGHT Examples of Passionate Leaders
• SECTION THREE – SPIRITUAL GIFTS
• CHAPTER NINE What Is a Spiritual Gift?
• CHAPTER TEN Spiritual Gifts: A Biblical Perspective
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Important Factors for the Proper Use of Your Spiritual Gift
• SECTION FOUR – NEED
• CHAPTER TWELVE Need: What Area of Need Is God Calling You to Meet?
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Meeting External Needs 193
• SECTION FIVE – PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: THE INTERSECTION POINT OF PASSION, SPIRITUAL GIFT, AND NEED
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Discerning God’s Individual Vocational Will: The Oglesby Model
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN My Story, the Originator, and an Example of the Model

Praise for Live Your Purpose

As a pastor, I’ve never met a person who, at some point in their life, hadn’t questioned God’s plan for their future. Finding, understanding, and pursuing God’s calling and purpose is a difficult task, and there are few resources designed to help us clearly discern God’s plan. Until now… Keith Oglesby has developed a terrific resource to help us all ensure God’s “next steps” and to live our God-ordained purpose. This book, Live Your Purpose, unpacks a three-step model which will help anyone, no matter their place in life, discover God’s will. I highly encourage you to read and implement these principles in order to become all God intended for you to become.

—Jonathan Falwell, Pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church

I have personally witnessed Keith live his purpose as his co-counselor, a husband and father, and throughout his career as a leader in Christian camping. Working with college student-athletes, I have had hundreds of conversations about majors, graduate schools, jobs, direction, passions, callings, and how to figure it all out. Live Your Purpose will serve as an incredible guide for mentors like me and for those I lead to be able to help discern God’s Will for their life. I am fired up to put Keith’s model into practice with my guys!

—Chris Creighton, Head Football Coach, Eastern Michigan University

Keith is a wise, caring, and enthusiastic leader who has invested his life in discipling others. This book outlines a helpful process for guiding emerging adults to follow God’s movement and call on their lives. Based on scripture and principles of human development, this is a powerful tool for engaging young people in conversations about vocation, calling, and life purpose. I urge your consideration.

—Rob Ribbe, Ph.D., Executive Director: HoneyRock, Center for Leadership Development, Associate Professor: School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership - Wheaton College

Product Details

• Title: Live Your Purpose: A Three-Step Model
• Author: Keith Oglesby
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Publisher: Keith Oglesby
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 270
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Purpose in life
• ISBNs: 9781916626393, 1916626394
• Resource ID: LLS:LVYRPRPSTSTPMDL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-11T20:49:40Z

About Keith Oglesby

Keith Oglesby is an Associate Professor and the Director of Camp and Outdoor Adventure Leadership (COAL) in the Department of Christian Leadership and Church Ministries at Liberty University. Since arriving at Liberty University, he has both proposed and been the pioneer of the new Bachelor’s Degree in Camp and Outdoor Adventure Leadership (COAL). He has also written the curriculum for all of the new COAL classes that he personally teaches. In addition, to these residential COAL responsibilities, he also teaches Discipleship in Ministry, Ministry Programming, and Evangelism 101.