To go to seminary or not, here's today's question, hello, Pastor John, my name is Brandon,

a 23-year-old college student from Georgia.

I have felt a call to ministry and discussed it with the leaders of my home church to

which they have affirmed and given me the opportunity to serve in youth ministry and

preach on occasion.

The issue I'm facing is that I feel the urgency to be involved with ministry full time and

to reach out to adults and to the community.

I know I'm called to pastor, but with this urgency I can't help but want to skip seminary.

Ministry means everything to me and I know that seminary will help equip me with my ministry

but I feel pressed to jump into the work now.

Additionally, I have this growing sense that we are not only in the last hour of the

end times, but that we are in the last minutes and that Jesus is soon to return hopefully

within my lifetime.

Does my sense of urgency wrongly placed?

Brandon, I think your sense of urgency is God-given and valuable and I hope you don't

lose it.

That is, the massive and eternal realities are at stake that you see and that's true.

And at every moment in people's lives, they could perish.

They could slip into eternity at any minute.

Everybody we know we should feel a sense of urgency about.

And Jesus could come and wrap things up historically in your lifetime, even my lifetime, I would

love it.

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