lesson here for us: personal aspiration must be met with a church’s public affirmation. We shouldn’t ground our commitment to ministry in some “decisive moment” of subjective calling. We certainly shouldn’t encourage others to pursue a “burning bush” experience. If that were required, I, for one, wouldn’t be pastoring now. Nor would I be writing this booklet. In fact, the notion of calling can even be harmful to pastors already in ministry. I heard a local church leader recently say that “because