In the Black tradition, the “call” describes a desire to preach the Gospel, which is different from an experience of God’s love. All Christians have that. The call is a sense of being commissioned to a task that requires more than one feels capable of giving. Who, after all, would take it upon themselves to speak about the things of God? Most clergy talk about trying to run from it, but the hound of heaven won’t leave them be until they relent.
