The term "called to preach" needs definitions. If someone is "called" and not given spiritual gifts of public speaking and leadership, I wonder who is "calling."
The first "call" is the most confusing. Later, a pulpit committee "calls" to lure a good preacher to their congregation. |
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A "call from God" is out of the biblical story of Abraham when God communicated with him over sacrificing his eldest son to show his love of God. It is straight from the pagan world of human sacrifice at the time. God provided a goat trapped in a vine and virtually said, "I was just testing you Abraham and you don't have to kill your son for my pleasure . . ." Later he had a dream which led him to father in old age the various sons who became the genesis of the Tribes of Israel.
Another "call" came to Moses in the burning bush event. At that point Moses was told to go to the Pharaoh and demand "let my people go."
Both "calls" were supernatural in nature. Moses protested that he could not even speak in public so Aron became the mouthpiece for Moses.
Both Billy Graham and my father were on the farm when they got their "call to preach." Both had a sense that God wanted to use them as Preachers. Billy went to a most conservative school, Wheaton, for seminary. Prior to that he was at a Conservative Bible College in Florida. My father entered Mercer, a more middle-of-the-road education institution started by Baptists in GA. He went from there to Andover-Newton Seminary at Boston because he felt it was the best institute of its kind in America with outstanding faculty in theology.
In Baptist world anyone can be "called." They focus more on the emotional experience and do not require educational credentials to pastor a church, just an invite from the Pulpit Committee. Methodists, on the other hand, and Presbyterians have more control of clergy. They both require a formal education at the college or seminary level which results in a Masters Degree. They ordain their ministers at the larger level with a promise to get them a pulpit. Methodists assign their clergy in their District or Conference / Presbyterians let individual churches call from the ranks of ordained clergy in their Presbytery.
In all this is the mystery of the Holy Spirit at work PLUS the politics of a circle of friends gleaned from who you know and who was your professor at seminary. In other words it is a mix of divine and human relationships and HOPEFULLY the good clergy person seeks to find God's Will for themselves and their churches each time along the journey through life and various churches. . .