Barnabas File

I n a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. — Eric Hoffer, writer and philosopher   In his article, Human Knowledge is Doubling Every 12 Hours , Amitabh Ray notes, “The  volume of knowledge is doubling every 12 hours. The doubling rate used to be 25 years in 1945.”    He reports, “There was a stunned silence when I told a group of young students that the jobs of tomorrow, for which they were preparing themselves today, haven’t yet been invented. I received a similar response when I said that things that are being taught today in our schools and colleges would be redundant by the time students graduate.”   When I graduated from seminary in the last century, I felt that I was well equipped for ministry. In addition to biblical, historical, and theological studies, I knew how to develop and deliver a sermon, craft a Bible study, provide pastoral care, and  even do some administrative tasks.  My confidence didn’t last long...