some so severely that they were tempted to leave the ministry, or even to despair of life itself. God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute’ (Luke 11:49). Consider the Old Testament prophets. Their call narratives make for inspiring reading; however, what most of them were called to do was to suffer. Samuel heard God’s voice in the night, yet the message he received made his ears tingle with fear: judgment on Eli, his father in the