These ministries are always marked by dynamic action, by a movement from where we are to where Christ calls us to serve. Our ministries are a continuing and always changing response to the one mission of the Church. Every Christian, growing in faith, comes to that time when the desire to serve must find expression. The desire to serve is holy. The response to this holy desire involves the practice of discernment.
Discernment means respecting, celebrating, exploring, and testing the desire to serve.
The normal first place for discernment is the congregation in which you worship. In formal and informal ways, together with other faithful people, find ways to explore and test your call to service. Ask others to help in that discernment friends and colleagues, and parish, diocesan, provincial and national church people. Bolles believes that being called to service is an interaction between Someone who calls and someone who responds. The call from God is reflected in the gifts which God has given you.