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Myself, on the other hand, I spent seven years earning my MDiv in the early days of my career as an engineer, and have found it quite worthwhile. Perhaps the di

Myself, on the other hand, I spent seven years earning my MDiv in the early days of my career as an engineer, and have found it quite worthwhile. Perhaps the difference is that I still consider the most important thing about my existence to be that I am in Christ.

fellowniusmonk 2y ago
You might be less prone to being nerd sniped as well. Being employed as an engineer while completing an MDiv certainly speaks to a certain healthy degree of mental balance. Certainly higher educations that focuses on reading comprehension/understanding will have a broad positive effect, as will being a respected and educated (high status for some value of status) individual in a close knit community. I think how devout a person is matters a lot, my parents always gave away their 2nd cloak away and I've known very few christians stateside who live with a believable degree of piety. My parents would literally give up a dishwasher, dryer, car, computer, etc.. without second thought when it served the mission and they intentionally put themselves in places where that would be the case. Finding ways to isolate yourself from seeing others needs is a very common way of following the letter but not spirit of NT teaching. I think north american christians typically have the best life outcomes when they practice restricted piety instead of taking NT injunctions seriously or literally, which is just a hedge of course against the existential doubt that seems to drive a persons observable behavior. Agree or disagree with them but my parents also had a hundred fold (more than that actually, when I really think about it) return in reaching people, I don't know many NA christians who have had even 30 fold return, which definitely makes me question what type of seed NA christians tend to be. I've heard some very devout missionaries say that there they suspect there are very few christians left in NA and based on numbers alone many churches seem to be reaping negative numbers and the rest are growing through absorbing other groups.
- pmdulaney 2y ago
  I am humbled by their selflessness. Intellectually it can be so challenging to be a Bible-believing Christian in modern day Western culture, but I pray you will make your way back into the fold.
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fellowniusmonk 2y ago

You might be less prone to being nerd sniped as well. Being employed as an engineer while completing an MDiv certainly speaks to a certain healthy degree of mental balance. Certainly higher educations that focuses on reading comprehension/understanding will have a broad positive effect, as will being a respected and educated (high status for some value of status) individual in a close knit community. I think how devout a person is matters a lot, my parents always gave away their 2nd cloak away and I've known very few christians stateside who live with a believable degree of piety. My parents would literally give up a dishwasher, dryer, car, computer, etc.. without second thought when it served the mission and they intentionally put themselves in places where that would be the case. Finding ways to isolate yourself from seeing others needs is a very common way of following the letter but not spirit of NT teaching. I think north american christians typically have the best life outcomes when they practice restricted piety instead of taking NT injunctions seriously or literally, which is just a hedge of course against the existential doubt that seems to drive a persons observable behavior. Agree or disagree with them but my parents also had a hundred fold (more than that actually, when I really think about it) return in reaching people, I don't know many NA christians who have had even 30 fold return, which definitely makes me question what type of seed NA christians tend to be. I've heard some very devout missionaries say that there they suspect there are very few christians left in NA and based on numbers alone many churches seem to be reaping negative numbers and the rest are growing through absorbing other groups.

pmdulaney 2y ago
I am humbled by their selflessness. Intellectually it can be so challenging to be a Bible-believing Christian in modern day Western culture, but I pray you will make your way back into the fold.
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