Day Ten

Boy was I schooled. I was accredited, but shesh it was hard, apparently I need to keep reading my bible as there were a bunch of questions like "tell me every spot in the bible you'd find instruction on spiritual gifts, what chapter and verse talks about healing, speaking in tounges, what book/s, chapter/s, verses would you find parables, the ten commandments. How many books are there in the Bible? How are they divided? What are the different types of literature?

Yes I knew the answers to most of these, but this is just scratching the surface. There were many times when I honestly said "I don't know" and swallowed hard, real hard (I ended up choking as I felt like my throat was closing after 2 hours of the intense deliberations).

So yes I achieved the goal, the answer I knew God had already given and that was "Go ahead serve, be a leader in the church".

Now I did read a bunch of really neat stuff in Numbers today. But at the moment I'm just a bit too tired to write it all out. I had a great time of prayer prior to my interview as I arrived 2 hours early and went to Wendy's for lunch. Then I drove to a nearby parking lot and chatted with God. I didn't feel alone, I wasn't nervous, I was confident. It wasn't untill midway in the interview that I hit a rough patch, I think they just started asking harder questions (and they didn't show any emotion, I mean there was one time I said "it's in Corinthians right?" and he said "I am asking you", then I started to sweat. However after that was done I felt the Holy Spirit give me a boost and I got some questions that I really knew well, and well I nailed them.

I learned a couple things.

1. Ordination is going to be tuff.
2. I should read a couple of those boring "Theology Books". I can't just rely on people skills, I've got to keep learning, no coasting aloud.
3. It was neat to tell my story and realize all this time it wasn't so much me persuing God as it's been God persuing me. From little boy, to highschool kid, to university lad, to seminary grad, to today and forever. God persued and persues me first.
4. Part of me isn't a fan of the concept of Christian denomination's, even though I know they are necessary.