Explain why some Christians join communities and take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

... Explain why some Christians join communities and take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Most Christians live ordinary live pursuing a career, bringing up a family, etc... Some leave this state of living and choose to live in a religious community; many feel they have had a calling from god, obliging them to live in this specific way of life. A calling from god is a vocation to a certain type of lifestyle. Some Christians believe that they have been called by god, to follow Jesus, his teachings and to make their pilgrimage here on earth. There are different ways in which god communicates: directly to them telling them (the Virgin Mary), some say god communicates indirectly to them through situations, visions, natural disasters or historical events. Mother Theresa felt that god called her through the parable of the sheep and goats and the dying in Calcutta. Martin Luther King had

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