text: For the 100th time:
  
  All vocations are callings from God, but not all callings from God are vocations.
  
  If Protestants see their ministry as more than a career path, that is all well and good.  Whatever they believe about their ministry, however, they do not believe what Catholics believe.  For them, ordination is not a sacrament. Ordination does not configure a person to Christ in such a way as they become an altar christus.  Lutherans believe the minister is an altar christus--but not in the sense that Catholics believe.  They use the same terminology but mean very different things by it.  
  
  In the end, for Protestants, ordination is more akin to a formal commissioning.  It is an ordinance, but not a Sacrament.