PASS

Let me just take this opportunity to say "I LOVE MY JOB!" 

I don't know if I've ever blogged about it before, but now is definitely the time since I am feeling so positively about it. 

The reason I entitled this post "PASS" is because that is part of my job title. I am a tutor, but I am also a PASS leader. PASS stands for Peer Assisted Study Sessions and it is a service that is offered here at WKU. I heard about it when I was taking my New Testament class freshman year. The New Testament class was notoriously hard, so professor Trafton had begun using PASS. So I went even though I'm not a fan of group study sessions... and it was so much fun. I just love talking about the New Testament anyways so an extra hour two nights a week was just a blast. 

Anyways, at the end of my freshman year the student who had been our PASS leader graduated and I pretty much told her I wanted her job. So she put in a good word for me and bada bing bada boom! I got the job! So now, I lead study sessions for the New Testament class! How awesome is that?

Its really awesome, until you realize that you barely get paid, it doesn't provide many hours, and sometimes no one shows up for sessions. Which is why days like the one I had yesterday are so important.

This is my third semester leading PASS and never, have I ever had a student like one I had last night. She came into PASS and immediately told me that she knows nothing, whatsoever, about the Bible. Nothing. And she was not joking. She didn't know the difference between Jews and Gentiles. She didn't know what a Gospel was. And she can't pronounce "disciple." 

PRAISE GOD! Because sometimes I start to look at my job as just a job. But its so much more than that. Every time I lead a study session I get to teach people about Jesus. And no, I'm not allowed to put in my opinion or to teach anything other than what is taught in the class, but that's okay, because all I believe anyways is Biblical and as long as I get to talk about Jesus, that's enough. And when I meet students like the one I just described it just warms my heart. Its so refreshing to see someone who has no pre-conceived ideas about the Bible or Jesus. She's learning the Bible in its historical context, verse for verse, chapter for chapter, book for book and she gets to decide what she will take from it.

And if she's looking for truth she will find it. 

I'm so happy I get to be a part of that!