I suppose that I did OK on the Greek quiz. I seem to rebel against sitting down and memorizing. I would much rather review notes, go through examples, reread translations; anything to avoid memorizing verb stems.

Yesterday I met with my pastor to discuss whether I am truly prepared to enter the ministry. My concern is that some of my beliefs are contradictory. I do not yet have any rubric for evaluating propositions. I want to use the Bible, literally, to support truths that I am already comfortable with. Yet I am willing to throw out passages inconsistent with my priors. Passages about selling daughters to slavery, even New Testament passages regulating the behavior of women in worship.

He made a comment that I found very helpful; essentially, that I will always be exploring new ideas, and always asking " what is truth? " There is no reason to delay, if there is a message that I am supposed to provide.

And afterwards, I thought about Wesley:

Preach faith until you have faith.
Preach hope until you have hope.
Preach love until you have love.

(last two lines mine.)