I had my first real class last night - Bible Study Methods and Hermeneutics. Sitting in class with a bunch of ThM (Masters of Theology) students and being taught by the president of the seminary, it occurred to me that I might just be getting more than I bargained for in this seminary education thing. As President Proff wrote words in Greek upon the white erase board and spoke in tenses unknown to the English language, I began to doubt whether I was up for the intense new world of knowledge acquisition that I am diving into. I have always felt very strongly that faith is a matter of relationship and not intellectualism. Luckily, it seems that DTS feels the same way, unfortunately that does not get me out of doing the work to become a Biblical intellectual.

In spite of being completely overwhelmed by what I have gotten myself into, I did enjoy the class. God is drawing me to pursue Him much more deeply despite my squeamishness. Throughout the process so far, I've come to realize how little I know about Him and His word. How much of the knowledge I am going to gain is pertinent to my relationship with Him and how much of it is knowledge for knowledge sake (i.e. memorizing all of the OT kings in chronological order and learning all of the man-made vocabulary dividing and defining biblical concepts to help man understand the incomprehensibility of the nature of God), I'm not yet sure.

Well, on to another day! Chapel starts in a few minutes and then I'm off to my video production class. That one, I am definitely looking forward to!