On Being "Called"
From my experience growing up in the church of Christ, whenever someone said they were "called" to preach, they were met with suspicion. Usually such language as being "called" wasn't used in church of Christ circles and certainly not in pulpits! People-usually males, who said they were called, were normally members of religious traditions we in churches of Christ identified as "lost". Consequently, being called, at least from our perspective, was simply their way of justifying their error