Vocation, or, Does God call you to be a teacher or a minister?
This article addresses how young people in the church can discern whether God has called them to vocational ministry as either a Christian school teacher or a minister of the Word. Drawing on Psalm 139 and 1 Corinthians 12, Dykstra argues that God sovereignly determines each believer's vocation and equips them with necessary qualifications, and he explores the criteria for recognizing a call to these two vocations that serve the church most directly.
Previous article in this series: April 1, 2018, p. 293. Every believer has a God-determined calling in this life. Few passages in Scripture emphasize it as strikingly as the psalmist's confession of God's sovereignty over his life in Psalm 139. While he was yet "in [his] mother's womb…[his] substance was not hid from" God, which is to say, God knew his unformed substance (vv. 13, 15). Indeed, adds the psalmist, "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my...
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