impression from God, an inner experience with God. It’s a matter of the heart. A call is something you know you have, you are confident is real, and yet is often difficult to quantify or explain. You know you are called, in short, because you know it in your heart. This experience-based definition troubles some people. Certainly such an important spiritual concept must be more objective than this. They fear allowing this much subjectivity might lead to abuse, misunderstanding, false claims, and uncertainty.