God-called closed out - Berndt Isaksson

Berndt Isaksson. DAY, an article on Hönökonferensen where Rune W. Dahlen was one of the speakers.

In one of his Bible studies he asks himself the disciple Peter today would have been accepted for pastor training.

His example was the case of the Swedish Mission Church. The question might as well be on the other pastor training in our country.

Exactly where is a question I often have wondered about myself. For it must surely be many men and women that God gives the call to become pastors and priests, but that might not have the intellectual abilities required for admission.

The requirements have become higher and higher over the years - but only in terms of intellectual / academic abilities.

A person with top rankings can be pretty sure to be accepted by all pastors and priest training today, regardless of what the person is otherwise of spiritual maturity or doctrinal soundness.

Many communities also advertises on their priest and pastor training as if it were as civil servants working at any time.

Ancient times require clear vocation awareness today has greatly toned down or even removed.

There are many people with a real vocation, and who have a real God-given gift to both preach the word and meet people in pastoral care, but are not able to perform sufficiently high grades in school work.

These individuals are now often in practice excluded from the pastor training, even though they carry a clear vocation awareness.

I think this is a great sadness in the heart of God today and certainly ONE of the reasons for the lukewarmness and backsliding that has spread in our country's Christianity.

Congregations and denominations affirm leaders whose hearts have no vocation, while the God-called closed out and scorned because their school grades are not high enough.

Berndt Isaksson
Vetlanda

 
Publicerat: torsdag 2 augusti 2012 12:13 | Direktlänk | Mer om: Berndt Isaksson, Församling, Pastorsutbildning, Undervisning, Kallelse, Rune W Dahlén, Nyckelord: Berndt Isaksson, Församling, Pastorsutbildning, Undervisning, Kallelse, Rune W Dahlén, it | , English

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