I first began seriously considering vocational ministry when I was a junior in high school. I began to sense a calling to student ministry, in part because of the positive influence of both my middle and high school pastors. “I want to do for others what Brandon and Dan did for me,” I thought. By the beginning of my senior year, I was convinced of the path that lay ahead: college at a Christian institution to study the Bible, seminary training, and then the pastorate. Only one pesky detail remained before my “perfect plan”: one more year of high school. The sad truth, as I reflect upon it now, is that my “Sunday to Monday gap” significantly widened upon my decision to pursue pastoral ministry.
By “Sunday to Monday gap,” I mean my faith convictions professed on Sunday did