Called to Preach

     Preachers make a issue about their calling to preach. Actually God does put in their hearts the desire to spread the gospel truth, but not specifically them. All Christians are called to preach - to preach the good news. How so? Christians obtain a second occupation when they are born again. They too, as Adam, are to "dress and keep the Garden" (Gen 2:15). It doesn't take much knowledge of  symbolism to get the idea: It wasn't the "trees" God was so concerned with but men as trees. Regeneration is the same as generation - the job of God's creatures is to care for God and others. Paul referred to Christians as the "royal priesthood" (1 Pet 2:9). What do priests do? Priests are earthly mediators between others and God. The mediation is what God wills, and is transmitted by preaching. As such, all Christians are called to be preachers.
     Priests are referred to as ministers. Bishops, in scripture, superintend the building of the Church. They don't go into the world as preachers must, but nourish the flock. As ministers, they do much more than preach; they organize, fraternize, pray for, grieve for, and love the flock. Preaching is just a mere part of ministering. Bishops need a wider knowledge than preachers as their responsibility is more than laying the lively stones, but superintending the entire Church structure.
     That is a big job. Therefore, they need helpers. Neither are deacons called, but are appointed. They are the bishops' helpers. They carry the hod (mortar) when laying the lively stones and help care for the Church. They are much like the Levites in Judaism whereas the Bishops are the Levitical priests, all of which were appointed because it was their birthright.
     Of all those in the Church, only the prophets and apostles were individually called. We are neither of those. I don't write commentary because I'm called; I write because it is my reasonable service (Rom 12:1). It is the preachers' jobs, as a peculiar people, to provide the service of teaching, reproving, and correcting those in error. As the eunuch said, How would I know unless someone teaches me? That's what preachers do, and we are all called to do that.