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Touche, Kalled2Preach. I wrote that early this morning, quickly before going off to work. What I had in mind to say before I typed it was that I did not need to do any exegesis of the Greek unless there was some reason to think the generally accepted translations were correct.

Good deal. Just thought I'd point that out to ya!

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By the way, your title, called to preach, implies that God gives revelation outside of scripture, assuming you believe you have a special call to preach aside from something given to all believers in general.

On the contrary, I realized my calling while reading Scripture. He didn't reveal it to me apart from or outside Scripture. I was reading the book of Jeremiah and things fell into place. Next thing I knew an internship opened up at my home church and then, right after that, I ended up at the church I am now by nothing other than divine providence. So my calling wasn't told to me outside of Scripture, the Spirit just opened my eyes to see what He had called me for, and no one on this site will deny that He works in that way. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />