Welcome to After the Fact, Aknowing Faith many episodes where we look to take a big question

and address it in just a few minutes. Our After-the-Fact episodes this season are brought to you by

our season sponsor, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. We've loved Midwestern and their motto, which is for the church.

That really resonates so deeply with our goal, which is to see a theological movement

that is both from and for the church.

Joining us today is Sam Parada.

Sam is a PhD student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Sam is an evangelist with ambassadors for for Christ International and he is the host of the Preach and Persuade podcast. Sam,

welcome to After the Fact. Thanks for joining us. You bet. It's good to be here, Kyle.

All right. So here's the big question, Sam. Somebody is listening to this. They're already active in

ministry or ministry leadership.

They're serving in a church.

They're in a ministry organization.

Maybe they are part-time.

Maybe they're full-time.

Maybe they're just a lay volunteer.

They're already spending a lot of time doing the work.

Why, if you were already involved in doing the work of ministry, why would you take time away from

that to go to seminary? Like you're already doing the thing. Why would you pause that or take hours

away from that, either online or maybe even move your life to a campus and say, you know, for the next

three or four years, we're going to focus on

this. Why, if I'm already serving a ministry, why would I take time away from that and go do seminary?

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