I spent my junior and senior years in college at Bethany, a
liberal arts Assemblies of God school in Santa Cruz (with a very beautiful
campus). So although my major
wasn’t ministry related, in order to graduate, I was required to take a full
load of Bible classes, since I had neglected to do so at UCLA.
There was a lot of Neil’s points 1 and 2 going around. There’s a rush that comes from
discovery, and in a group setting, with the right professor, well, you never
wanted to graduate and move on.
There was a wide gap between the deeper principles we were learning and
the application to our young lives.
Simply put, we were becoming Bible scholars while doing some of the
dumbest things we’d ever done in our lives.
It’s funny to look back, but I realize I’ve still got the
same tendency. I love learning,
but 1 Corinthians 8:1 hit me between the eyes: Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies. It’s
not enough to know all about God; the amazing understanding of who He is must
transform me if it’s to matter at all.
How about you?
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