Ordination By Skewering

Soon, I will have to pass comprehensive and oral exams in order to be ordained as a pastor. You can imagine my intrigue in finding this passage in Numbers 25 in which Phinehas was ordained as a priest by skewering two unfaithful Israelites who were in the act of "worshiping" a pagan sex god (that means they were having sex, for the homeschoolers out there). 

I think I would rather take a test.

P.S. I was homeschooled and therefore have the right to make fun of homeschoolers. Ha!