{"product_id":"called-to-serve-joel-jr-latimore-9798218893903","title":"Called to Serve: Becoming a Minister of the Gospel Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalled to Serve: Becoming a Minister of the Gospel, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e is a pastoral and instructional work that examines the responsibilities, disciplines, and accountability that follow a minister's calling. While Volume 1 focuses on discerning and preparing for a call to ministry, Volume 2 addresses the realities that emerge once authority has been granted and leadership responsibilities are assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores the inner life of the minister, emphasizing integrity, self-governance, and faithfulness over time. It addresses the dangers of entitlement, moral compromise, financial mismanagement, isolation, and unchecked authority, while calling ministers back to humility, discipline, and obedience. Through biblical teaching and sober reflection, the book challenges leaders to guard their character as carefully as their doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey themes include financial restraint, emotional endurance, accountability and spiritual covering, mentorship and legacy, and the necessity of finishing ministry well. The book also confronts common misconceptions about leadership, including the belief that ministry is a platform, inheritance, or dynasty, and reaffirms that calling is always tied to accountability before God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume concludes by directing ministers to live and lead with eternity in view, emphasizing the reality of standing before the judgment seat of Christ. Written as an advanced teaching resource, \u003ci\u003eCalled to Serve, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e is intended for pastors, ministers, elders, and those preparing for leadership who understand that calling brings responsibility, authority requires discipline, and faithfulness must be sustained to the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Jr. Latimore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218893903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Latimore Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Joel Jr. Latimore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852759707903,"sku":"9798218893903","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/called-to-serve-joel-jr-latimore-9798218893903","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}