Is God calling me into pastoral ministry?
It’s a question many Christians wrestle with at some point in their life of faith. Not just in adolescence or early adulthood , but sometimes midlife, or even in approaching so-called retirement age . The New Testament doesn’t draw neat and distinct lines between “full-time ministry” and so-called “secular work.” In whatever God , by his providence, leads us into for our day job, he calls us to do our work “not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord” ( Colossians 3:22 ). Christ ’s apostle charges all workers, “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ” ( Colossians 3:23–24 ; also Ephesians 6:6–8 ). The fundamental divide is not between full-time ministry and non-ministry jobs, but this important distinction: church office. Perhaps the better question to ask — or at least where we have some speci