Handle That New Call with Care: Accepting or Declining a Call to a New Congregation (Ministering the Master’s Way)

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‘Should I stay put or should I move on to another sphere of pastoral ministry?’ How frequently a minister may find himself asking this question–and how much does he have to strive in prayer to discern the mind of God who has called him with a holy calling to shepherd his church! Of course, the assumption of the question is that there is a call being extended to a new pastorate. Some men find that they have to wrestle with the question whether they should leave the pastorate altogether–either for a different ministry or in order to retire or to take up some other kind of work. This helpful little book examines the principles for the accepting or declining of a call to a new pastorate and examines them in the light of the Bible, the history of the church and God’s providence.
David Campbell was born and raised in Scotland and was converted to Christ as a child. During his bachelor’s degree at Glasgow University, he felt a call to the gospel ministry and subsequently spent four years studying at the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh. After being the pastor of the Geneva Road Evangelical Baptist Church in Darlington, England, for fifteen years, he began his ministry in Grace Baptist Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 2002. He is the author of two other books, also published by Day One: Travel with John Knox and Opening up the Bible: Titus. He and his wife, Mairi, have two daughters, Megan and Caitriona.

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