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--- topical_call_to_ministry [2020/04/25 12:58] – [References] gregkedro
+++ topical_call_to_ministry [2020/04/25 13:03] (current) – [References] gregkedro
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 However, Dr. Ruckman did say in that same context that this "God-called preacher" was assigned a lifelong job... two things that God expected him to do for the rest of his life:
-  - Study and search every branch of knowledge, relgion, history, and news event to find THE TRUTH in it, according to one standard: the Holy Bible; and
+  - Study and search every branch of knowledge, religion, history, and news event to find THE TRUTH in it, according to one standard: the Holy Bible; and
   - Proclaim those truths (or that truth) any way that he can as long as he lives.
 **Quote:** "He is to be obsessed with learning and teaching" (teaching what is TRUE and what is NOT TRUE). Any other occupation is a "hobby" or a "necessity," not his "calling."
+  * Even thought I disagree with the notion of an extra-biblical, personal "call to ministry," I really like what he has to say about what God expects of a preacher.
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   * Telology (God's divine design; what He designed us to do) should be the guiding principle in our search for our ministry niche.
   * And we'll never figure it out until we start driving nails... get busy in the ministry.
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 >I have never known God to waste anything, any human life. We waste things, but the Lord doesn't.
-Summary: So, how do we know what the Lord wants us to do? By some mystical "subjective sense" that we think is a "calling"? No. Do what God equipped you to do.
+**Summary:** So, how do we know what the Lord wants us to do? By some mystical "subjective sense" that we think is a "calling"? No. Do what God equipped you to do.
   * Look at your background--everything in your background (it's not an accident: Eph 2.10).
   * God doesn't waste anything.