Spiritual Formation In College

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End of week two of college, college so far hasn’t been the way it has been described to me as hard and difficult. I mean college to me is a lot of work but it’s not unconquerable. Taking six classes is interesting and challenging at times when maybe I want to go and explore the campus I have to read multiple chapters for a class but after I finish those chapters I really do learn something new and in the end I see for instance the bible in a new light. For example, when I have read Matthew and mark I seen how they wrote their books as a narrative and seen small indications to how is characterized like this. What do I think about the statement spiritual formation is optional or not? I feel that spiritual formation is not optional. I feel that

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