Hearing God's Call: To Go or To Stay?

Perhaps all of us from time to time wrestle with the question of whether to remain in the local church of which one is a part, or to move on to another. Pastors do, and so do congregants, although they may perhaps look at the issue in different ways.

My wife and I are grappling with the question right now. But we believe it is not enough just to ask questions like: where would I be happier? or where can I get my needs met? or where will we feel at home?. More important is hearing God's call. For us, this is the issue, indeed the only issue -- all the rest are barely secondary.

But how does one hear God's call? Reflections on that question will likely form the basis for a number of subsequent posts. I don't expect to come up with the definitive answer -- indeed I strongly doubt such one exists -- but perhaps these reflections will prove useful -- to myself as well as to others.