I’m bored. It’s been a long day and I’m flat out beat. Being bored is not to say that I do not have plenty of things that I could/should be attending to, but I choose to deny and delay. So, while I’m being neglectful of my calling to study, blog I shall.
Today has been frustrating for me emotionally and intellectually. I love seminary, and it has been a time where I’ve been challenged emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually, but there are points in the process where you simply grow weary and fainthearted. Today was such a day. Not to make denominational differences a big issue (which they are not, because we all confess that Christ and His message of grace is of most importance), but sometimes I fear that when my time at Southeastern is done, I’ll be left out in the cold because of my seminary choice. Petty fears, but they jump up sporadically.
The reason the logo at the top of this entry appears is that it is the logo for Janel and I’s local church, Christ Our Hope. When days like this come along and I wonder why in the world I would continue in the school that I am at instead of transferring to a traditionally Presbyterian seminary, I am reminded of our church. For reasons that only He knows, God has brought us to this one little representation of the worldwide church and called us to grow, love, and serve her. God loves His Church, which the Bible says that Christ bought with his own blood (Acts 20:28). Depression and fear go away when I get to spend time with this community, which has become a second family, a home away from home along with my friends from seminary. I’m grateful. This church gives me the “Intern” to accompany “Indigent.” I’m a minister-in-training, and this gracious congregation lets me use it as an ecclesiastical guinea pig. May God have mercy on us all.
Drew,
I think you, me, Michael and maybe someone else should start a group blog like those guys at “Together for the Gospel” have. After all, they have one presbyterian, so shall we! Any idea who could be the fourth?