A call to change careers (Matthew 4:12-23)
There was certainly nothing wrong with doing what I did before.
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I’m a second-career pastor. That means I used to do something else for a living. I did it fairly well, but not with a great deal of zeal or enthusiasm. It was a service I provided for others, who often had no sense of the scope of what was required to bring that service to them. More cynically, it was a paycheck, the assurance that I wouldn’t be evicted from my apartment.
