Called to the Ministry

This article is a slightly modified reprint of the original publication in the July 2014 issue of Beacon Lights.   Throughout my grade school, high school, and college years, the words, “Every young man should consider the ministry,” or some variation thereof, penetrated my heart as the sower’s seed the hard path. That word never received even a momentary or passing consideration. I never considered why the ministry was not for me because I never considered the ministry period. Yet the Lord had...