The minister must keep the nobility of the calling uppermost in his or her own mind. Should the minister fail to do this, he or she had better take up some other form of work. If for any cause the pastor begins to look down upon the profession or to feel that its glory has departed, then the calling is lost. The temptation may come, for instance, to measure the ministry by some of the standards that apply to the work of other professions—by temporal influence, by cultural values, by that ubiquitous