At a very practical level, when my last church was looking for a pastor, we did not issue a call to a man who already had a call from another church which he was deciding on, because it was not a matter of 'either them or us' but whether that other church was where he was called to be or not.

When he decided against, we called him. And he decided against us as well LOL

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Jonathan Hunt

Preaching Elder
Cheltenham Evangelical Free Church (Confessionally Based)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
-- Thomas Elsworth