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4 Steps for Testing the “Call” to Ministry. Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Created in partnership with 9Marks, Church Questions is a series that seeks to provide ordinary Christians with...

Churches raise up pastors, and churches send out pastors. If you want to pastor, you need to be deeply involved in a healthy local church. I don’t mean to suggest that seminaries are unimportant. They’re finishing schools—they should complement what the local church is doing, not supplant it. You don’t need a seminary degree to pastor. Some of the greatest pastors and preachers like Charles Spurgeon and Martyn Lloyd-Jones didn’t graduate from seminary.
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