Some years ago a diverse group of seminary faculty and students were asked about their call to ministry. Some of them had extraordinary experiences. For others, it had been a fairly cerebral thing. But there was one thing in common.

Each one of the seminary faculty and studens spoke of a text that had leaped off the page and grabbed them  and wouldn’t let go.

What was common in all of them was a profound, unswerving, immutable passion that believed the gospel is so central in all of human life that nothing in comparison with its proclamation is worth doing.

Not for a moment am I saying God doesn’t call some Christians to be chemists or others to be garbage collectors. But you will find in the proclaimers of God’s message those who sense a call upon their lives. You will find that without exception they have this sense of sheer non-negotiable value of the gospel.

Click here to listen to this devotional.