Are You Called to Ministry?

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode concluding our White Horse Inn series on vocation, Michael Horton and Justin Holcomb sit down to discuss the call to vocational ministry. Drawing on their experiences as ordained ministers and seminary professors, they answer questions like: What are the qualifications for pastoral ministry? How do you know if you’re called to ministry? When should you go to seminary? And how can we encourage those in our midst we think may be called?

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0:00.0	We're being saved together. There's wisdom and counselors. You don't know anything by yourself.
0:08.0	Listen to other people. Now, if you say, but Jesus called me, I felt it in my heart. I have a calling from Jesus to do this.
0:19.5	I don't need to be ordained, I don't need to go to seminary, I don't need to do any of this stuff, I don't need to go to seminar I don't need to do any of this stuff I don't need to
0:23.6	say it's wonderful that you have this internal call it sounds like it the
0:28.9	holy spirit calling you and drawing you but you are not called to anything until the Holy Spirit calls you through
0:35.6	the church.
0:40.3	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for
0:45.7	discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:50.3	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the White Horse,
0:54.4	the Reformation came to the English-speaking world.
0:58.0	Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.
1:07.0	Hello and welcome to White Horse Inn. It's great to be with you again.
1:09.0	I'm Mike Horton.
1:10.0	I'm here with my very good friend, Dr. Justin Holcombcomb who's canon for vocations. This is a perfect
1:16.3	position for someone to address the topic we're going to be investigating today, really any topic Justin is good at. He is a
1:26.6	theologian but he's also a pastor and a trainer of pastors. That's what he does in the Central Diocese of Florida
1:35.4	training pastors to become pastors and helping people understand what they're
1:41.0	calling actually is. A lot of people I run into say, you know, I really am not finding my vocation fulfilling.
1:52.8	And so I'm thinking about going into the ministry.
1:55.1	That's one of the things that I think we want to talk about in this program.
1:59.3	What does it mean to be called to the ministry of Word and sacrament in Christ's church.
2:06.2	And so Justin, it's great that you're a regular.
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