This article considers the two aspects to a call to the ministry, the inward call and the external call.

This article reflects on the usefulness of Richard Baxter's book The Reformed Pastor to consider the call to the ministry. The article summarizes five admonitions of Baxter into three rules of pastoral practice: active spirituality, pastoral integrity, and pastoral competence.

This article is about the call to the ministry and the pastor's internal and external call (the call from God and the call from the church).