That's not the word that the New Testament chose to use for God's kind of calling. The other word, kaleo, was used to speak to a person to bring him nearer ¨ either physically nearer or relationally nearer. That's the word that they chose. Jesus' whole mission began when He called people to belong to a little circle , a little redemptive community. Jesus went up into the hills and called to Himself those He wanted, and they came to Him that they might be with Him. ''Mark 3:13-14''

Now they belonged. This community of belonging was continually being extended. Paul writes to the people at Rome, who are a long, long way away: