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Originally Posted by Leslie  I think the stories are as varied as the individuals. I'd like to hear some of the others who have been called. |
A friend of mine in primary school told me that their family once read the Bible where somewhere it was written, Go to Israel.
They saw this as a call. Later they took the Bible, opened it up at random, and found on the page something to the same effect. So they sold everything and off they went to Israel.
This was +/- 25 years ago. In the meantime my friend got run over by a car there and died. The mother and other children left the father. To this day he is there alone. He had an idea that the Gentiles would all move to Israel in the end times, and he thought (as I gather) he was called to prepare accomodation for them. He tried to establish a camping ground there for this purpose. I don't think it worked out.
I managed to track him down via the internet, and it didn't look good. He asked me to help by being on the "lookout for antisemitism" in my country. So it actually seemed that he became a Jew, instead of vice versa. I never spoke to him again, but that has kept me sober when I've also felt called to the ministry, without the external call of God's people.
So I think yes, if God wants one as a missionary, He will do it by the same way as other services, by internal and external call.