Cert Min File

We have this thing at Oak Hill called the "Cert. Min. [Certificate of Ministry] File" what we've got to complete as part of our training in preparation for ordained ministry in the C of E, full of reports and assignments and all that.

Okay, the truth is that mine should be basically complete and its not quite there yet. Understatement.

But, come on! Is this really what we want? Is this what the pastoral epistles envisage? Did Titus issue prospective deacons with a ring binder and some plastic wallets and tell them that they's get a distinction if, for example, they'd included a fully cross referenced index? Was Augustine dragged to his ordination with an assessment form from his residential block placement in a churchmanship of another tradition?

I admit there may be an element of personal bias here, but wouldn't a reccomendation from some elders be better?

Anway, back to how my community survey project in Dagenham '05 might inform my future ministry and the implications of my Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator. Perhaps ENTJ's just aren't suited to Cert Min, though lets pray that doesn't enirely disqualify them from all Min.