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A Practical Guide for Men Aspiring to Ministry. What does it mean when a young man says he is “called” to be a pastor? Does that mean he is, or will be, qualified to be an elder? Is he gifted to work in pastoral ministry? According to pastor Bobby Jamieson, the idea of “calling” is the wrong place to start. In The Path to Being a Pastor, Jamieson exhorts readers to trade the question “Am I...

First, the exegetical problem is that the Bible does not use calling language to mean what we mean. The New Testament frequently uses “called” to describe God’s effectual act of bringing us to saving faith (e.g., Rom. 1:6–7; 8:30; 9:24; 1 Cor. 1:9, 24; Gal. 1:6). The New Testament also uses “calling” to describe the life of holiness to which God has summoned us and for which God has empowered us through the gospel (Eph. 4:1; 1 Thess. 4:3–7). But nowhere does the New Testament use the verb “call”
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