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Joe S. Warlick<\/p><\/div>\n
A called and sent ministry is the pride and boast of some religious people, and the experiences of the preachers who claim to have been called in a direct way and especially sent to preach the gospel is varied, as well as amusing.<\/p>\n
In the first place, we wonder why they all do not preach the same things, if they are called by the same power, to preach the same gospel. It seems that they would all speak the same things, but they do not do this, for all sorts of doctrines are preached by all kinds of preachers. Did God call, send and qualify all of them? If one preacher should preach all the conflicting doctrines, found in the warring creeds of Christendom, would we not call him a hypocrite? Then what of the spirit by which their preachers are called and qualified? But it is not clear that all such preachers are called of God. In fact it is certain that they are not.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Joe Warlick, March 1904 via Sentry Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 30, 1988 A called and sent ministry is the pride and boast of some religious people, and the experiences of the preachers who claim to have been called in a direct way and especially sent to preach the gospel is varied, as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[960,1511],"class_list":["post-84124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-calling","tag-preachers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58802,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/preaching-the-gospel-without-mentioning-baptism\/","url_meta":{"origin":84124,"position":0},"title":"Preaching the Gospel … Without Mentioning Baptism","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"by Foy E. 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