Teenager called to preach

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If you truly feel called to preach in your non-denominational church, my advice is to study at a Biblical college after you finish high school. Pray for guidance throughout your studies.

You may find during your studies that you are called to preach in other churches or that you’re called to convert to a specific denomination or even to become Catholic. If so, listen. God knows your heart and your needs. He will be with you in all things.
 
This is the Non-Catholic Religions forum. We must remain objective and respectful of this young man’s choice and ask God to guide him. Perhaps He will move him to join the Catholic Church.

Perhaps God’s plan for him is to remain in his non-denominational church. We must pray that God uses him where he will be the most effective.
 
What is between one’s self and God? Indifferentism?
 
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I really need guidance on what I should do. Should I simply wait? I believe I’m ready spiritually now and God is calling me now, but am I simply too young? Should I just throw the idea out to the adults and follow their wisdom? Frankly, although I can understand the idea that I am too young (and would normally 100% agree) God is calling me now, and I want to serve God. I really just need advice, and any advice is enough for me.
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Are you thinking about becoming Catholic? If so, this is a great place to come to. If not, I’m not sure you’re going to get very much useful feedback. The posters here will recommend you become Catholic, and once you become Catholic then you can begin discerning whether you want to enter into the priesthood.

As an evangelical Protestant, you should definitely pray about whether you are called and seek the guidance of your former pastor if you can still contact him, and if not then turn to your local lay elders/leaders. You are very young, both in age and in your time as a Christian. You may very well be a “babe in Christ” and it concerns me that you would be preaching in a church without a pastor—this is important. If you are going to start preaching, you need to do so under the oversight of a pastor. Rather than preaching to others you probably need to be ministered to and taught the elementary doctrines of the faith.

There is no rush. Even Jesus waited until he was 30 before he began his public ministry. You might want to start smaller. Ask if you can help out in other ways around the church like volunteering to teach a Sunday school class for younger children.
 
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Or he had his baptism six-months ago.
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Maybe, but he said he goes to a non-denominational church–which usually means its teaching a low-church, evangelical theology that typically does not have a regenerative understanding of baptism. When non-denominational Christians talk about being “saved”, it typically has nothing to do with baptism.
 
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You’re the one who is suffering from it. So it’s between yourself and God.
 
And I ask Blessed Mary, Ever-Virgin and Mother of God, for her intercession every day. So you see, it’s not strictly between God and me. I have a Mediatrix. God bless!
 
Which is nonsense. I find this idea found in some Protestant sects that you discover Jesus and are saved is preposterous. You cannot be born again! Simply deciding you have a belief in Christ does not mean you now have a place reserved for you in heaven. It takes a bit more than that.
 
What has asking the Blessed Virgin to intercede for you have to do with your being indifferent towards a teenager who believes he is being called to preach in his non-denominational church?
 
Ah, I was wondering if you were confused by my use of the term “indifferentism.” It has nothing to do with being indifferent to the OP. It is a theological term.
Hope this helps! :cowboy_hat_face:
 
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I find this idea found in some Protestant sects that you discover Jesus and are saved is preposterous.
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Evangelical Protestants do not believe that we “discover Jesus.” We believe that we are called to repentance by the work of the Spirit and preaching of the Word and in response we believe on Christ, putting our faith in him and his promises. It is Jesus who invites us to know him and be known by him. Jesus finds us.
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You cannot be born again!
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“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God’” (John 3:3).
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Simply deciding you have a belief in Christ does not mean you now have a place reserved for you in heaven. It takes a bit more than that.
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That’s an oversimplification of what evangelical Protestants believe; though there are certainly Protestants out there who go overboard into “decision theology” and do seem to reduce salvation to deciding to follow Christ.

However, broadly speaking, evangelicals do recognize that merely assenting to a belief in Christ is not the same as being regenerated or made a new creation in Christ. That only comes by divine grace through faith, and faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ (Romans 10:17). If we have true faith, then we will produce good fruit and show evidence of progressive sanctification.
 
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