Seminary Convocation Address, 1982

Brethren of the Theological School Committee, honored colleagues, students, and beloved people of God gathered with us at this occasion tonight: Sometimes I am afraid of my task as professor. When I look at you young men -- as far as the ministry is concerned, naive, innocent, inexperienced, unspoiled, with your faces unlined by the cares of the ministry, but with a potential ministry ahead of you of probably thirty-five or forty years (which, by the way, will take you well into the...