Guinness argues that the way back from the Protestant distortion is to debunk the notion of calling without a Caller, and to restore thte priority of the primary calling. That involves restoring the worship that is its setting, and the dedication to Jesus that is its heart. We are not called first to special work, but to God. Guinness writes that God normally calls us along the line of our giftedness, but the purpose of giftedness is stewardship and service, not selfishness. Guinness distinguishes between a later, special calling and our original, ordinary calling.
Selfishness prefers the first, but stewardship respects both.
A special calling refers to those tasks and mission laid on individulas through a particular supernatural communiation from God. The importance of not equitng callig with jobs becomes clearer when one becomes unemployed or retires, is depressed, or is found to be terminally ill. We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled. Or you may be depressed by the pages of your life that are blotched with compromises, failures, betrayals, and sin . . . But make no judgments and draw nol conclusions until the scaffolding of history is stripped away and you see what it means for God to ahve had his say and made you what you are called to be.