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“Time” to be imitated?

 The Marks of a Christian Scholar: A Vocational Description (Part Three)[1]
Mark Eckel, ThM PhD, Professor of Leadership, Education & Discipleship
Capital Seminary & Graduate School, Washington, D.C.

By guiding attention we take in our hands the key
to the formation and the development of personality and character. — Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky[2]

Sundial in Cathedral garden, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54886 (retrieved April 11, 2014). Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizzer/5337318377/.

My first stint as an educator was chosen by a four letter word: time.

My training was in pastoral studies. But I was being offered a position as a high school teacher in a Christian school. Should I become a teacher, something for which I was not trained? I made my decision based on time.

I asked myself how much influence could I have within a certain amount of time? Teaching five times a week for 45 minutes a day over 180 days a year equals 135 hours per year.

But discipleship was the key to my decision. [Read more…] about “Time” to be imitated?

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