Reflections on my call to preach: connecting the dots
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1. Verfasser: Craddock, Fred B. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: St. Louis, Mo. Chalice Press c2009
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Beschreibung:Introduction -- Before I was born -- If you will let him live -- The midwife -- My mother -- My father -- Three to a bed -- School days -- School days (continued) -- Sunday Shool -- Staying for church -- Bethany Hills -- The summer of '46 -- Reflections on these reflections
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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