Reflections on my call to preach : connecting the dots /
Travel with revered preacher and author Fred Craddock through his early years as he considers what made him take to the pulpit.?For some reason, I felt I had to say?Yes? or?No? to the ministry so I could feel free again. My siblings and friends talked almost casually about options and preferences as...
| Основен автор: | Craddock, Fred B. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo. :
Chalice Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=493308 |
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Print version::
Reflections on my call to preach. |
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Travel with revered preacher and author Fred Craddock through his early years as he considers what made him take to the pulpit.?For some reason, I felt I had to say?Yes? or?No? to the ministry so I could feel free again. My siblings and friends talked almost casually about options and preferences as to careers, but with no evident sense of urgency. Not so with me. I did not then nor do I now know whether the burden of choice was a trait of personality, a kind of super-conscientiousness, whether the calling to ministry itself carried a weight, a burden, peculiar to the task itself. Rightly or wrongly, when I thought of possibly becoming a journalist, that would be a choice, 100 percent mine. When I considered becoming a minister, that was not totally my decision; I was responding to God?s will for me. Of course, I had been told that journalists, lawyers, teachers, merchants, farmers?all could understand their lives as a vocation, a calling, but what I am telling you is that I perceived, I felt, I experienced the idea of being a preacher as different, and that difference was sobering, even burdensome. That?s why advice about not being in a hurry, taking my time, was not helpful even if wise. If it was my decision, why could I not make it now; if it was God?s decision, why did not God tell me, or at least tell my father or my mother? I prayed for the ache to leave me.??Excerpt from Reflections on My Call to Preach. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 117 pages) |
| ISBN: |
9780827232815 0827232810 9780827232822 0827232829 |