Tuesday, January 24, 2006

subversive



`They commonly enter seminary motivated by a commitment to God and a desire to serve their Lord in some form of ministry, and find that they are being either distracted or deflected from that intention at every turn. They find themselves immersed in Chalcedonian controversies, they find themselves staying up late at night memorising Greek paradigms, they wake in the morning, rubbing their eyes, puzzled over hairsplitting distinctions between homoousios and homoiousios. This is not what they had bargained on.... Seminaries were regarded as the graveyard of spirituality. Seminaries were where men and women lost their faith.' -Eugene Peterson

Churches can be a graveyard as well.
No matter what we study: Greek or tech sheets

Keep seeking Keep knocking(up from the grave He arose)

Christian faith, by definition
Cannot die
The death has already been done

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