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英语专业有志从事职业事工
与一般人相比，我来到威尼斯人平台的故事不太传统 学生。 我在海岸警卫队完成第四年学业时申请了威尼斯人平台。 When enlisting into the Coast Guard, I did not envision myself getting out and going back to school, let alone wanting to pursue some kind of vocational ministry.
文学之爱
当我在海岸警卫队服役时，我的内心萌发了许多爱。 其中一个爱好是文学和书籍。 这是 罪与罚 当我坐在室友的蓝色沙发上时，这首陀思妥耶夫斯基的诗抓住了我的心。 That book whose pages became more ragged as it traveled with me from duty to off-duty alongside a growing collection of books by C.S. Lewis captured my mind and heart with beauty that I never knew existed.
人的爱
随着时间的推移，另一种更强烈的爱是对人的爱。 While in Cape May, NJ, stationed in a fire department, I grew to love the guys I served with. 这份工作没有什么能比得上和这些人在一起。 I discovered that I was more similar than different. I found the two-part truth that we were all both sufferers and sinners.
两种爱的碰撞
的se two loves—my love of literature and story and my love of people—coincided with an interest in pursuing ministry as a vocation. I was fairly set on going to seminary as soon as possible, but then I discovered 威尼斯人平台. A wise mentor at the time recommended that I slow down in my urgency in pursuing seminary and let the “calling” of ministry be tried and developed a bit more. In that wisdom, I sought to find a solid place to be tried and test this aspiration of mine. Covenant made sense, so I submitted an application and six months later moved into Carter Hall.
I chose English as a major from the start because I was hungry to read and figured it could help me write a better paper in seminary if that was something that was still clear to me. Following that hunch to study English has been one of the best decisions I have made. Studying American literature, Shakespeare, and cross-cultural literature have all been fuel to my love for people and interest in ministry.
没有一节英语课我们没有讨论过以下内容之一：
- 沮丧、凄凉和忧郁
- 死亡，自杀的挣扎，以及各种损失
- 痛苦、悲伤和悲剧
- 目的和无目的
- 真理与怀疑
- 美与欢乐
- 文化
- 种族歧视
- 性剥削
- 罪，后悔，懊悔
- 救赎与复活
一颗充满同情和同情的心
这些事情有什么共同之处呢？ 人和事工。 I have developed a more nuanced perspective of life and people because of the impact of my education at Covenant. 博士。 Macallister and 博士。 Tate have shaped my heart in profound ways to see people as Christ sees people. Literature, in a way, has given me hundreds of “case studies” to help me think about others and grow in me a heart of compassion and empathy.
When I was seventeen going into the Coast Guard, I would never have thought that I would go back to school or love literature. I am now in my third year at Covenant and still an aspiring pastor, but I have learned more and more during my time here that the vocation and call of ministry is much larger and bigger than I thought. It is part of the beauty of the Reformed perspective that God cares about “every square inch” of the world and He calls it His. 包括那本破旧的书 罪与罚 still on my shelf and the firehouse that shaped my heart just as much as Covenant has.