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How do you discern God's call?
God calls us all. We may be called to acts of service, communities of love, labors for justice. Our calls may change with seasons of life, seasons of love, seasons of location.
The question of "the" call, as some call it — God's call to professional ministry, with authorization or ordination by a Christian body — can be difficult to discern or daunting to embrace.
Listening to others' testimonies of God's call is a helpful exercise for vocational discernment. Voice Recognition shares 10 call stories from 10 ordained ministers who've perceived the voice of God beckoning in strange, unsettling, awesome, disruptive, and beautiful ways.
Wrestling with ministerial call
The essays of Voice Recognition are candid, aiming to help demystify the prospect of ministerial call. They include such honest admissions as:
- having no interest in ordained ministry
- having other professional plans
- feeling called out of the blue
- feeling called from early childhood
- being discouraged from ministry
- being discouraged in ministry
Voice Recognition invites readers to dig deeper into their understanding of call through reflection questions, journal prompts, and studies of Scripture. The resource is excellent for those discerning a ministerial call, those who mentor and advise such discerners, and ministry groups.
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About the Writers
The Stillspeaking Writers' Group is made up of United Church of Christ ministers, pastors, and authors who collaborate on a variety of faith-enlivening resources for people in the church, outside the church, and not so sure about the church.
Paperback
2025
