Description This is an 8 page downloadable PDF document ON MARCH 8, 1955, Ernest Holmes gave a memorable talk to the graduates of Religious Science, titled “A Call to the Ministry.” I can talk to you only about why I think this ministry is a wonderful thing to engage in—as practitioners, as ministers and as leaders. First of all, it would be impossible in our field to be a good leader without being a good practitioner. You might as well say you have a dancer who doesn’t know how to dance. There is no such thing in our field as a teacher teaching people how to practice unless he knows how to practice himself and unless he constantly practices. He can only know that he knows that he knows by the results that he gets. The only authority Jesus ever asked for his word was his work. When they questioned him as to whether or not he had the right to forgive people, he said, “To show you that I do, I will heal this man. Pick up your bed and walk,” and so forth
