Episode 63- Dr. Jason Allen– Discerning Your Call to Ministry: How to Know For Sure and What to Do About It

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Welcome to the sixth-third episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave Jenkins interviews Dr. Jason Allen– Discerning Your Call to Ministry: How to Know For Sure and What to Do About It (Moody, 2016).

What you’ll hear in this episode:

Dr. Allen’s life, ministry, marriage, and his current ministry projects.
What young, aspiring pastors should do if they suspect their sense of calling is just an emotional high or temporary phase.
How those called to ministry should measure their own gifts.
To what extent does a person need to display the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3 in order to be ready to begin pastoral ministry.
What readers should do if they are still unsure about their calling after reading Dr. Allen’s book.
What role the gospel plays in helping a man sense a calling to ministry and remain qualified for pastoral ministry.
The place of friendship in pastoral ministry.
Help for those who have been affirmed for pastoral ministry by their local church but can’t find a position and how they should continue to prepare for pastoral ministry.

About the Author:

DR. JASON ALLEN is the fifth and youngest president of Midwestern Baptist Seminary. He has served as pastor and interim pastor of Southern Baptist churches in Alabama and Kentucky over the past fifteen years. He currently serves the church more broadly through writing and preaching ministries, including his own website www.jasonkallen.com, where he writes on various topics including higher education, theology, preaching, and cultural and local church issues. He and his wife, Karen, have five children: Anne-Marie, Caroline, William, Alden, and Elizabeth.

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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.

Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.

He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).

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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.

Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.

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