Indiana - The Dojo

His specialty was young men, they were more responsive to his disciplines, and his purpose was to build ministers. The few years he spent in the military had prepared him for his calling and those ways were going to prepare us for ours. The call came before six, "You coming?" and we gathered at the church to pray and memorize scripture until it was time to go to work. After work we met to discuss our last reading assignment and get a new one. During supper the next call came, "Are you prepared?" and duties for the church service that night would be given out. An hour to get ready then meet at the church for an hour of prayer, an hour of worship, an hour of preaching and an hour of fellowship, by then it was time for bed. Three services a week, Sunday school, prayer meeting, men's meetings and fellowship meetings, missing one would get a call, "Where were you?" We strayed from the path, were untrue to our calling, the calling that had come from God, it may have been a man asking the question but we knew it was God who was listening for the answer.

We submitted, we wanted to be leaders so we followed.