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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...

But I’d like to go out on a limb and suggest that “calling” is both an unbiblical and unhelpful way to ask whether or not you should pursue vocational ministry. Asking whether you’re “called” to ministry is unbiblical because that’s simply not how the Bible speaks of calling. In the New Testament, calling is synonymous with salvation not vocation. For instance, when Peter first preaches at Pentecost, he extends the promise of the gospel to “everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself” (Acts
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