{"id":33165,"date":"2021-12-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=33165"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:57:42","slug":"come-back-to-your-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2021\/12\/come-back-to-your-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Back to Your Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"628\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 14 of 24 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/pastors-hope-and-a-future\/\">Pastors: A Hope and a Future<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the best things you can do to refresh your sense of call to be a pastor is to relive the experience of how you came to understand you were called to pastoral ministry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you didn&#8217;t have a specific moment that you were called, don&#8217;t worry. Many people, including 100-year-old John Richardson whom we heard from earlier in this series, had no specific call but just followed opportunity to serve as it arose. If that&#8217;s you, you can still relive your experience and appreciate the wonder of how God works through people to reach you. 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