The biggest surprise I got at the end of my seminary days was discovering that, out of everything I was taught, the courses on the Old Testament turned out to be my favorite.
Like most Christians, I always gave the expected, respectful nod to the first 39 books of the Bible, but that was mostly it. Maybe like you, the idea impressed on me (either implicitly or explicitly) was that the New Testament is what really matters.
After all, isn’t the Church a New Testament concept and isn’t that where we find Jesus? That being the case, I felt I shouldn’t waste much time studying the Old Testament with its seemingly endless genealogies and the like.
How wrong I was.
My classes on the Old Testament blew open doors and gave me more insight into God and Christ than I ever thought possible. That experience taught me how the New Testament Church is, in many ways, crippled without a good understanding of what preceded it and sadly isn’t getting that education.
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