Seminary Discussion this week

The scriptures containing the teachings of the Good Shepherd are just as applicable today as ever.







I can remember having a discussion, recently, about how some of content from the Epistles are so applicable to today. It almost seems like they were written yesterday, and not thousands of years ago. Since I have been discerning a call to ministry for almost 3 years, I have been saturating myself with I and II Timothy (letters to a young pastor with a tough duty assignment in the pagan secular city of Ephesus). In II Timothy 3, there is a long “laundry list” of deplorable behavioral patterns that Paul warns Pastor Timothy about. Everytime I hear a question about the applicable nature of Scripture, which comes from ages past I bring up this passage. The list sounds like it is describing behavior which is prevalent today: “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, and the list goes on. Was Paul describing a society in 60 A.D. or 2009 A.D.; it is hard to tell, isn’t it?

I get great comfort out of reading scriptures like this, surprisingly. Comfort? Yes. Because the Scriptures are accurate and appropriate in portraying what we can expect from our culture, how we are to interface with our culture, and what their response to us will be.

Blessings!
George