This is one of my favorite postings in which I deal with some of the existing problems in today’s institutional CHURCH, which IS NOT Christ Jesus’ ekklesia. I am reblogging it, because its subject matter is something that needs to be revisited!
But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw fit and was pleased To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the glad tidings (Gospel), immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood [did not consult or counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone]. Nor did I [even] go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles (special messengers of Christ) before I was, but I went away and retired into Arabia, and afterward I came back again to Damascus. ~ Galatians 1:15-17, AMP
The secular world is not the only place where “job” applicants face mind-boggling pressures and intense scrutiny. Oddly enough, globally speaking, Christian ministries and churches also have been requiring well-written…
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Gone Fishin' 
Reblogged this on Revnadinedraytonkeen's Blog and commented:
Contrary to some people’s opinions concerning who “calls,” anoints, appoints, gifts, equips, ordains, and sends men and women into the Gospel ministry’s vineyard, it is God and only God who “calls,” anoints, appoints, gifts, equips, and ordains His vineyard workers, and ONLY God who sends His vineyard workers “where” He wants them to be. God also is the only One who decides “when” He will send His workers! Then too, God and only God is the One who determines what function His “called,” anointed, appointed, gifted, equipped, and ordained men and women are to perform while working in His Gospel ministry’s vineyard. In essence, being “called” into God’s Ministry, which includes all that accepting His “calling” involves (like which ekklesia, how to function in that ekklesia, what gifts to use, and so on), is ALWAYS a theocratic selection and NEVER a democratic election!