Chronological Snobbery
Well friends, nobody's coming to my aid regarding my html ignorance...so it's gonna be text for a while.
I just want all of you to know that I am currently in academic heaven. Wheaton grad school has been incredible so far. I am taking a class called "History of the Care of Souls" by Lyle Dorsett. He wrote a great biography about Dwight Lyman Moody that is worth checking out. It's called "Passion for Souls." I went to Moody Bible Institute and I can say at this point that none of the classes I took there were as stimulating, inspiring, and interactive as those I'm taking here at Wheaton. I like to tell people that Moody was and experience, Wheaton so far is an education. I'd like to add on some quotes by Dorsett here at the end.
Janet's belly is growing out of control. I can now feel little _______ making full turns inside there and can feel his hips and limbs distinctly. Dorsett is taking us back into history and showing us how souls have been cared for. He says that we suffer from "chronological snobbery" meaning that the way we do things today is better than ever before in history. Anyway, in ancient Jewish times the primary (primary is hardly the word) place for education (education is hardly the word) was the home. Jews were given explicit instructions to take care of widows, orphans, fatherless, foreigners specifically because they didn't have "homes." The point? Family is such a blessing. I'm excited about what is ahead.
Ok, the quotes and then I'm off to cook dinner...
"It doesn't take much sewage in the drinking water to make you real sick."
Re: worship-- "We're just getting warmed up for glory." "Heaven's going to be one loud refrain of, Oh, I never knew that!"
"We're not going to fix anyone, we are to bring them into the presence of the Great Physician; take people to the emergency room."
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