Divine Callings: Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentecostalism

2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
K. L. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Call To Ministry

Clergy in Crisis: When Human Power Isn't Enough

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Muse
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Intensive Intervention ◽  
Spiritual Discernment ◽  
Call To Ministry

The author cites current research and more than a decade of clinical work with hundreds of clergy from a variety of denominations to suggest an approach for empowerment and renewal by addressing the tension between the call to ministry and the need for self-validation. He describes a short-term, multi-counselor, intensive intervention for clergy in crisis and offers two heuristic models designed to facilitate integration of the domains of clinical diagnosis and spiritual discernment.

Nothing

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-490
Author(s):  
Rogelio Ovalle
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Call To Ministry ◽  
The Church

This article highlights 1 Cor 1:25–29 and the criteria that God uses to qualify a call to serve. The passage wonderfully reveals the desire of God to use our weakness as the criterion for a call to ministry. Paul’s specific language affirms God’s inclination to use the humble, the weak, the oppressed, the broken, the things that are not, and the disqualified, to realize His redemptive plan to transform lives and communities. Many North American Evangelicals live amidst historically unprecedented levels of affluence and enjoy a level of comfort and ease. Affluence demands “more” and the church often heeds to it. Antithetical to the Corinthian passage is the “prosperity gospel” promoted in many Evangelical churches today. Prosperity gospel claims prosperity and financial success as the direct result of one’s faith. Principles of the prosperity gospel are trivial pursuits of consumerism, acquisition of things, the perennial effort to attain success, in order to qualify in ministry. Still those principles are not the criteria God would use to qualify a call. He uses the foolish, the weak, the disqualified; He uses the things that are not.

When the People Say No: Conflict and the Call to Ministry

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Leroy T. Howe ◽  
James E. Dittes
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
Call To Ministry
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