You may have noticed in the right sidebar of my blog that there is a section called "Most Popular Posts." At the top of the list, you'll find that of all the posts I've written, the one that has gotten the most traffic is my post entitled
Seminary Doesn't Need to Kill Your Faith. It was a response to a series that
Desiring God had started entitled
How to Stay a Christian in Seminary and focused on the fact that far from being a place of spiritual turmoil, Covenant Theological Seminary was a sweet foretaste of heaven for me.
Fellow Covenant alum Dane Ortlund wrote a post yesterday entitled
Staying Christian in Seminary in conjunction with the
Desiring God series. In it he suggests that among the many good words of advice, there are two things in particular that the seminary student should remember:
- You are justified by another.
- You are strong in weakness.
In both of these, much is made of God's grace, and our need to be in performance-mode is minimized. If you are a seminary student, I highly recommend you read
Dane's entire post. In fact, the gospel-centeredness of this post is so rich that it would benefit you greatly even if seminary is the last place you expect to find yourself.
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