Comments on: Call to the Ministry Checklist https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: David Timothy Holdsworth https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49763 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:24:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49763 An excellent list. One of the ones that I struggle with is perhaps the “friendless” point. It is not that I’m unfriendly, but simply an introvert by nature. I love people. I can hold conversations better than when I was younger, but mostly with people I have got to know. Is their room in the ministry for an introvert?

]]> By: David Murray https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49596 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:48:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49596 What I mean is referred to in 1 Cor. 9:16. It’s not optional. It feels compulsory.

]]> By: David Murray https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49595 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:47:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49595 Hmm. Tough one. I’d find it difficult to be dogmatic on this and would probably take each case individually and try to make an overall character assessment. So, it wouldn’t necessarily rule him out, but I’d want to take a much closer look at his life and character since then.

]]> By: This and That – 09-17-16 – The Thompsonian Times https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49579 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 14:20:41 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49579 […] Call to the Ministry Checklist – In my “Christian Ministry” class we put together a “Call the the Ministry Checklist.” Basically we went through the Bible, and a number of pastoral theologies, pastoral biographies, and blog posts on the subject and noted the most common recurring marks that were given by various authors. – David Murray […]

]]> By: Mike John https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49561 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:49:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49561 Dr. Murray,

Great list. Pertaining to the fruit of the Spirit, what would you say to a young man who has struggled in the past with porn/purity even as a married man, but has a long and sustained track record of purity? Is this man disbarred from ministry or able to move forward by grace?

]]> By: Michael Poirier (directorfsm) https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49560 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:24:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49560 Very good list which I will be utilizing in future prison ministry work. I cannot remember the number of encounters I have had where folks have said they have been “called” to the ministry by the “spirit”. Of course they have no training, show little or no fruit of the Spirit, their real burden is inward not outward, etc.

I like the overwhelming compulsion one, I have never stated it like that before but makes perfect sense. Two quotes from missionaries help me drive home the point: “I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light” — Keith Falconer and “If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China” — Hudson Taylor

]]> By: Harley Jake Schwartz https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/09/14/call-to-the-ministry-checklist/#comment-49559 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:31:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24689#comment-49559 Dr. Murray could I ask for you to expand on Overwhelming Compulsion?

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