Willzhead has a post that should challenge every seminarian to ask the question, "Should I be here?"

If I don't ask myself the question I think I would go nuts. The tension is really important in my seminary development. If I did not ask if I should be there or not, I think I would get too wrapped up in the academia of it all and forget that my passion is to help people.

I personally am taking the next two quarters off at Fuller Seminary. This is not because I don't want to be there, but I do not want to go into debt if I can help it and funds are tight and also because I'm getting married in the beginning of next quarter and my fiance (who busted her butt to graduate by then) and I thought that we should really settle into marriage before attempting full-time employment and school.

I know I will miss the education. But I think the break will be beneficial. It will allow me to work on some other projects, exercise more and engage in more hands-on ministry.

I expect to go back, but I may have the realization that Willzhead had...that I may be in the wrong place. Who knows, but I'm glad the question will continue to haunt me and keep me engaged in my passions.

As a side note, my roommate finished his Foundations of Ministry class yesterday, in which Ryan Bolger came and spoke and pretty much told the large class of aspiring MDiv students that they are getting educated for a system that is shifting rapidly and failing...maybe seminary as Willzhead discusses it is not the appropriate way to do school in our post-modern day.

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