heard, “If God has given you a call and you forsake that call for anything else, you’re going to live in life-long judgment.” When I first entered ministry as a youth pastor, I was filled with that idealism. I remember my first sermon and how Gail hugged me so tightly at the end of the evening. She was proud of me; I was proud of me. We saw only a wonderful future of doing God’s work. Then a few months later the sky began to fall. The father of one of the young people became disaffected by how
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