i'm really alright...

just got done with a class. a seminary class. we're talking graduate level stuff here. today we talked about how to communicate with one another. seriously. the whole sender, message, receiver stuff that i have heard since i was a freshman in college. sure, my judgment could be a little jaded because i was a communication major in college but really...give me a break. here i am, giving up a day of my work week, a day away from my wife, a day so that i can learn how to be a better minister of the gospel. this isn't high school people. this is the real deal. and what do we learn today?? we learn about how to talk to one another. if you're still reading, thanks for weathering my rant. all of that is to say that: the business of working vocationally for God is taken much less seriously than ever before. the men that the seminaries of today are producing are not ready to charge hell...why? because they have a feel good diary in one hand, and a weak, cliche theology in the other. i honestly feel like i could learn more from a public library than i have this semester of GRADUATE school. how seriously do we take the lost, dying souls of the world? seriously enough to spend all day talking about how, "ministry is hard, but don't worry, people will love you if you don't hurt their feelings. let's get one thing straight here...as ministers we only have to worry about one thing. "On the other hand i am filled with power- with the spirit of the Lord-and with justice and courage to make known to Jacob his rebellious acts, even to Israel his sin." -Micah 3:8 This ain't for the weak of spirit men...this is hard, and it's the hard that makes it great. if we need classes to reassure us that it's all going to be fine and that being sensitive and womanly is alright then we are in the wrong business.