Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story

by Rob Wegner, Brian Phipps, Todd Wilson (Foreword)

Every person has been designed by God for one-of-a-kind Masterpiece Mission, what most people refer to as personal calling or personal purpose. Everyone needs to be able to name what God has put them on the earth to do. Most people never do. That is a tragedy of epic proportions.

We need a simple way to discover that calling, and Find Your Place is that way. GPS technology is widely known as a way to know where you are on the earth, as well as a way to guide you to get where you want to go. The Find Your Place book will help followers of Jesus locate three signals that will help people discern their personal their Gifts, their Passions, and their Story, and help them take meaningful next steps to engage that calling.

Furthermore, the American Church has a Co-Dependency Disorder. Church members have become dependent upon church leaders, and church leaders need their members to remain that way. This co-dependence is doing more than throttling the vitality of the church...it is strangling it. In order for the people of God to truly thrive and be salt and light in the world, church leaders must move from simply "gathering and teaching" their members to "empowering and releasing them." This book, the accompanying online assessment, and the disciple-making tools that both will be integrated into, will all be a part of a turn-key solution for church leaders to accomplish that goal.

Genres: Faith, Leadership, Christian, Spirituality

192 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2019

About the author

Rob Wegner serves as a teaching pastor at Granger Community Church, calling the people of God to get out of their seat and into the Story. Under his leadership, Granger has seen thousands move out on-mission, culminating in redemptive movements locally and globally.

Rob is also the lead catalyst for EnterMission, which sparks holistic transformation of communities, equipping and networking churches for local and global impact, and forging transformational partnerships across domains of society.

He is also working alongside Alan Hirsch in an innovative coaching program called Future Travelers--helping mega-churches become missional movements. This is his first book and it's been his joy to write it with his best friend and the love of his life.

Reviews

[Zhongtian Li]

Spiritual book that has practical guidance on gifts, passions, and story to follow Jesus

Well written with outstanding personal experiences. Practical guides in finding gifts, passions, and story. A great book worth of reading periodically .

[Andrew Micah]

A fair bit of fat and fluff and there’s probably too much focus on activism to encourage a really helpful perspective on work, but the core theological approach is pretty sound and I actually learned a lot about myself that was very, very helpful—life-altering even—from the free GPS assessment.

[Britain]

Good basic content. Too much fluff in-between though.

[Rafik Farouk]

In "Find Your Place," Rob Wegner dives into the journey of discovering where we truly belong in life and faith. He emphasizes the importance of community and connection, urging us to engage with others and seek our unique purpose. Wegner blends personal stories with practical insights, encouraging readers to step out of their comfort zones and embrace their identities within a supportive network. Ultimately, the book inspires us to not just find a place but to actively create one where we can thrive and contribute meaningfully.

[Cori]

Suggested at the Exponential Conference.

[Kara of BookishBytes]

Pleasant reading, but didn't help me in particular.

[Lydia Shepard-kiser]

A good resource - practical questions and tools. 101 discipleship stuff to be used in relationship. While this wasn’t revelational for me, I could see it being for others.

[Madison]

Solid theology broken into understandable language for your average church goer. Not sure why this book has "low" reviews, it is a great tool to build personal spiritual giftings.

[Matt]

I have always approached spiritual gift inventories with a bit of skepticism. Not that I don’t believe that gifts matter, only that calling matters more. After reading this book, I have a greater appreciation of the factors that come together to discover calling - gifting is key in that, but also to be considered in light of passion and story (“GPS”). The book does an excellent job of helping the reader do what is advertised, to “find your place” in the grand rescue story that God is telling. What will stick with me is the APEST acrostic, taken directly from Ephesians 4:11, it is a helpful guide in discovering one’s role in the body of Christ.