There is still an important...
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There is still an important place in our faith for miracles. That place is sometimes before reason. Being products of the Age of Reason, we tend to think in terms of mind and mental ability. I find it challenging to teach a confirmation class or Sunday school class about the miracles. So few believe.
John did. John believed before he reasoned it out. John believed before he knew.
As a minister, all of my degrees are earned. They are earned degrees in intellectual accumulations of fact (and some professor's fancy) required by a legal institution. I was judged by men who were predecessors of the same intellectual climate. They made little, if any, impression upon me. I knew I had to earn my degrees to be accepted by those men and the institution. Even my standing in the church is judged not by my faith, but by my grades in school.
My true standing in the ministry is not by man or his intellectual requirements, but because I, too, have experienced a miracle.
While seminaries postulate theories and denominationalisms, my Lord touched me and I believed -- along with John, Peter, and Paul.
John did. John believed before he reasoned it out. John believed before he knew.
As a minister, all of my degrees are earned. They are earned degrees in intellectual accumulations of fact (and some professor's fancy) required by a legal institution. I was judged by men who were predecessors of the same intellectual climate. They made little, if any, impression upon me. I knew I had to earn my degrees to be accepted by those men and the institution. Even my standing in the church is judged not by my faith, but by my grades in school.
My true standing in the ministry is not by man or his intellectual requirements, but because I, too, have experienced a miracle.
While seminaries postulate theories and denominationalisms, my Lord touched me and I believed -- along with John, Peter, and Paul.
