Supernatural Call to Ministry - Not Required

Meet Thomas Smyth. A guy from South Carolina with a library of 20,000 volumes. According to this forgotten genius author, the traditional "call to preach" is: Unwarrantable, unattainable, and delusive.

In other words, the Scripture alone, containing the command of Christ, is sufficient in order for a qualified person of any gender to confidently enter Christian "ministry". Granted, there is a spiritual aspect to these things but NOT to the degree of complexity and mysticism currently being practiced.

I inquire. Where would the Church of Christ be today if a (spurious) standard and needless barrier had not been in place now for hundreds of years among even the Reformed Churches?

In his day, the laborers were few. As a result of the mysterious "call to preach" the problem is now worse.

With such an open and enlarged view of ministry and missions, it is only natural that Smyth would author another book: "The Duty of Interesting Children in the Missionary Cause.” The keyword is DUTY.

Therefore those who were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word. Acts 8:4