Warren
Puritan Board Freshman
I'm 25, unmarried, a dead-end job, living with parents again, and so far called to the great joy of worshipping the Lord Jesus corporately. I'm not ashamed of the other blessings (youth, singleness, employment, loving parents), but there's been greater joy in going to church, to fellowship and singing psalms, pray, and sit under preaching. However, I really want to be a sailor. I'd need to begin on river boats, or on fishing boats, but I'd like to turn that into life at sea, at least until I get my bearings and finance round 3 of school. I'm inspired by types like Louis L'Amour and Eric Hoffer, who adapted to a wandering lifestyle and learned a lot that way, rather than the scholars who, God bless the good ones, never leave academia.
Has anyone made these two callings work? I mean, being unchurched for months, over a year at a time, in some cases. Bunking with all the unsavory types Christ likes to draw to himself. Possibly being the only Calvinist, let alone believer in my circle of contact. I'd just really like to know if anybody on these boards or in Reformed history made it work. I'm not looking for testimonies from men who knew they had the calling to preach and evangelize, and were knit to a catechizing Church's mission, before beginning work as a sailor. Just anybody who was a layman at the time they went to sea on a freighter or fishing boat, as these would not have Sabbath services.
Thanks
Has anyone made these two callings work? I mean, being unchurched for months, over a year at a time, in some cases. Bunking with all the unsavory types Christ likes to draw to himself. Possibly being the only Calvinist, let alone believer in my circle of contact. I'd just really like to know if anybody on these boards or in Reformed history made it work. I'm not looking for testimonies from men who knew they had the calling to preach and evangelize, and were knit to a catechizing Church's mission, before beginning work as a sailor. Just anybody who was a layman at the time they went to sea on a freighter or fishing boat, as these would not have Sabbath services.
Thanks