Bible school

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A>boy like me.  I have gotten use to it.  Like I said, I have learned
>a lot and then there is some that, I will just have to get over,
>ie..secular religious courses, etc.  My problem with IUPUI now,
>is that God is telling me to do other things in my life.  I feel,
>as I had mentioned in a post today, that God has shown me physical
>signs of shutting the door for me on my secular education.  I didn't
>follow them signs and now, I am going crazy on the inside.  The more
>I pray about it, the more I no longer want to be here.  I really
>feel a call in my life and I think if I don't follow it now,
>it might not be there one day.  
>

I went through this same dilemna in 1981 when I first started college, and
also was feeling a call into ministry.  At that time I felt, and it later
proved true, that even in the ministry there would be times I needed the
advantages a secular education has to offer in the world of work.  After
starting a home mission church in which I worked long, hard hours to pay the
church bills, and then later pastoring a church in which supplemental income
was needed, I was glad I had made this choice.   My secular degree has
opened doors in the  community that would have otherwise been closed- also
helping to minister in areas that may have never came open.

On the other hand, I have to admit that I have always been 'jealous' :) of
my friends who went to Bible College.  I think it would have been absolutely
thrilling to have been able to go and experience the indepth Bible teaching,
and the teaching of other subjects from an Apostolic perspective.

Why not both?  Could you go part time to IBC while you also attend IUPUI?
Or finish one program, then go directly into the other?  This would be the
best of both worlds.

I know what your going through.  I also know from your posts that you are a
balanced, spiritual fellow.  Remember, "The steps of a righteous man are
ordered of the Lord..."  He won't let you make a mistake- whatever your
decision, I think you will be blessed.

IU  Alumnus
Trevecca College Alumnus

   Rex Deckard