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Hello, I'm Micah, Vicar in the Church of England
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People often ask me how one becomes a vicar. And for me it was a pretty long process of meetings and panels and lots of reading at vicar school
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But the fundamental question that you and the church have to discern together is
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do you have a true vocation to be a priest? It's a wonderful word, that vocation
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The first time I heard it was at school. I met a vocations advisor. I told her that I wanted to play football for England
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But I didn't know then what the word meant. Vocation means to call
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It harks back to the idea that the gifts and passions that we have
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have been planted there by the God who made us. That we're made, you and I, with a divine purpose that is then called out
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This isn't true only for clergy and healthcare professionals and teachers. The Bible teaches that each of us have been created with a divine purpose
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For Christians, that purpose fundamentally is to know friendship with God, to be a disciple of Jesus
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and to then live out that discipleship for the good of others, yes, often through a career
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The true concept of vocation teaches us that life is about much more than how I'll make money in the short time that I'm here
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It's about how can I fulfil the purpose for which God made me
