"Don't be a 'dropout.'" As a young aspiring minister-in-training, I remember hearing this caution frequently -- and annoyingly -- as I packed my belongings and headed to seminary. "Many seminarians are not even in full-time ministry anymore after 10 years," I was warned. "Don't be like them."
For me, the warning functioned almost as a "Hebrews 6-like" threat: "Once you have tasted of the heavenly gifts of ministerial training and then fall away from the ministry, it is impossible to be restored again."
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