One answer is that we can point you to some of those great realities that God has revealed - great certainties - and we can show you the mindset or the disposition of heart and mind that correspond to that reality, and we can show the path into that mindset that God has revealed, and the path of obedience that flows from it.
Thousands and thousands of ideas, like incessant waves of the sea, will roll under the boat of your mind - some small, barely noticed and some huge, almost capsizing your life.Īnd then I think: What should happen to you in these years at Bethlehem College & Seminary? What can we do together in these years so that you see reality for what it is - what it really is? So that, without any presumption of becoming God, or omniscient, or infallible, nevertheless, you see - really see and know - some central and all-encompassing realities, so that ten thousand glittering waves from the world can roll under your boat without turning you into fools. Ideas about what kinds of behaviors should flow from this mindset.
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Ideas about how to get this mindset or this disposition. Ideas about the mindset or disposition you should have in view of this reality. Ideas about what is real - what reality is. Fifty years!Īnd then I think of the thousands and thousands of ideas that will come at you in these fifty years.
I think, what an amazing thing that most of you students have fifty-plus years in front of you on this earth.
I mention this because, looking at all of you when we gather for chapel, I feel some of the wonder of those days. I began my seminary years 51 years ago in 1968. I began my college years 55 years ago this fall in 1964.
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