tendency to see the work of the Kingdom as so urgent that we must move ahead, even without proper intellectual preparation. “O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling.” In the 1880s, F. W. Farr, of the Nyack Missionary Training Institute, expressed the “haste” mentality succinctly: “It is best to know and to do,” he affirmed, “but it is better to do without knowing than to know without doing.”6 My own sense is that while we should certainly hope for an ultimate integration of knowing and doing,