[QUOTE]bmrathbun wrote
We ministers put our trousers on one leg at a time just like everybody else. We're not more wonderful than anybody else. We've spent some time studying and thinking and working toward a theological understanding of God, Jesus, people, life, creation, the Realm of God, and a whole lot of other things. We've been honing our particular gifts for service to God. Don't see our particular gifts as the only gifts. They're just the gifts and graces God gave us, and we have chosen to accept those gifts and to polish them (as our passage from Ephesians 4 talks about this week). (See Kirk's and my blogs in the Opening the Bible section.)
Other people have other gifts, and as ministers, we depend on those healers and teachers and engineers and organizers and merchants and farmers and... We're working together, each bringing our own gifts to the table. We all sit at the table together, and we all eat together in God's world.
What we're doing in the meantime is trying to get us all to that world!
Pastor Barbara, iguide for Opening the Bible
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On a more practical note when I went to seminary I had the choice of going for an MDiv or a MA. I opted for the MA. Why? Because it had far more courses in Biblical Studies than the MDiv. I understand this is typical of seminaries. |