{"id":321,"date":"2017-02-17T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/?p=321"},"modified":"2017-02-17T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:20:56","slug":"answering-the-call-to-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/answering-the-call-to-ordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering the Call to Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today someone wrote in saying she didn&#8217;t think she was worthy to be ordained. She is basically already working as clergy in her community, she just lacks legal ordination. Yet she feels &#8220;unworthy&#8221; and full of flaws. I explained to her how much the country (and the world) needs alternative clergy like her, and that there is no place for self-guilt-tripping when we have much work to do, many souls to care for!<\/p>\n<p>Then I directed her to the old saying &#8220;God doesn&#8217;t call the qualified, he qualifies the Called&#8221; and the image (see below) someone posted to our forum several years ago.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JacobWasACheater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-322 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JacobWasACheater-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Call to Ordination\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JacobWasACheater-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JacobWasACheater.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> If you feel called to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/northernway.org\/ordain.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Minister<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/rabbicenter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbi<\/a>, Chaplain, or even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/seminary\/holyorders\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Priest with Apostolic Succession<\/a>, NOW is the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today someone wrote in saying she didn&#8217;t think she was worthy to be ordained. She is basically already working as clergy in her community, she just lacks legal ordination. Yet she feels &#8220;unworthy&#8221; and full of flaws. I explained to her how much the country (and the world) needs alternative clergy like her, and that [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,63],"tags":[51,50],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-become-ordained","category-clergy-skills-pastoral-care","tag-ordained","tag-ordination"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}