Preparation

I thank the Lord that I decided to get my Master's in Divinity. Over the past year or so I have been hit with a lot of questions, and issues from peers that I either grew up with. These issues a lot of times are issue that I don't know that I would be able to comfortably deal with had I not been academically trained (i.e. suicide, depression, divorce, AIDS issue, etc.).

I have a few preacher friends who have not gone to any school, and I wonder how they are making it. I am not at all questioning their gift/annointing, but when things are thrown your way and folks are hanging on your word for life, I think we owe it to them to be trained academically.