Dublin Core
Title
Anonymous
Contributor
Anonymous
Identifier
1210
Coverage
Unknown, (USA)
Stole Item Type Metadata
Honoree
Anonymous
Stole Text
Every time I attend an ordination, I listen to the question asked of the ordinands: “Will you assume this office, believing that the Church’s call is God’s call to ministry of Word and Sacrament?” I listen, confident in my own call to ministry, but also aware that the church’s affirmation of that call depends on my continuing to lead a double life. For more than a decade I have struggled to find a balance between personal integrity and faithfulness to my call, between honesty to God and compliance with the church’s requirements. In the end, I have always come to the same conclusion: forced to choose between God’s call and institutional policy, I must heed my call. It is my prayer that the ELCA will someday – soon – make that same decision. Then the church’s call will indeed be God’s call.
Contribution Date
2015
Contribution Story
Originally a part of the collection of stoles housed by ReconcilingWorks (formerly known as Lutherans Concerned), this stole was donated by them to the Shower of Stoles Project in 2015.
Denomination
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America