I am ready. with His help.
I have placed you on my prayer list.
Can you imagine, 40 years ago we were members of an ELCA church where as a laymen I actually knew more about Martin Luther and his theology than the pastor, who was a graduate of Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary. I was in it up to my eyeballs, a trustee, officer and occasional lay preacher.
Both the pastor, who I knew well from high school and his wife, both had masters degrees from that school. I say all this not to brag about my learning rather to show how little the seminary prepared students (back in the mid 1980s) for the Gospel Ministry. I tied to bring things back to an even keel but no one was concerned and the pastor was not interested in any kind of reformation. I finally gave up.