A Lot More Learning to Do
God always seems to give me a kick in the pants at just the right moment. The other day I was blogging about what to do with this website, and I emailed my pastor and another friend from church to get their opinion on the matter. Well, yesterday it became quite obvious, at least to me, that I definitely need to focus in on my studies and keep that as a significant priority.
Most days I carpool to work, and yesterday I happened to be playing Pastor Bob’s sermon from the 9:30 am service because I got to church late and missed the first few minutes of the message and wanted to hear what I missed. During the sermon he made a few comments about dispensations and the ceasing of gifts (as he was giving a recap of 1 Corinthians 13). The guy I carpool with made a comment or two about tongues, and I responded a little bit without going into too much detail. Well, on the way home, he told me that he had tried to do a little bit of research on dispensationalism (using our software… hey it pays to work @ a Bible software company sometimes). So, on the drive home we spent most of our time talking about the Church and Israel and trying to understand/explain the difference between the two. Without getting into much of the details of the discussion, I’ll just say that I felt completely inadequate in being able to answer the questions that he asked. I was barely able (or not able at all) to explain my stance and understanding of dispensationalism and the distinctions between Church and Israel and the blessings of each.
All of that to say, I need to hit the books that much harder. In regard to what I previously blogged about, I think this served as one of those things that God allowed to help nudge me in the direction that I need to take in regard to my training and studies. To quote my pastor in his email reply to me, “Truth is, knock out the training for the next 2-3 years and then your return to blog ministry will be that much more effective.” I’m thinking that’s the route I likely need to take and this conversation yesterday is added proof of that. If anything, it’s making me pray that much harder concerning where I’m at and where I want to go in my knowledge of the Scriptures.
