{"id":2299,"date":"2009-08-18T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2009-08-18T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:19:32","slug":"where-should-prospective-ministers-go-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/08\/18\/where-should-prospective-ministers-go-to-college","title":{"rendered":"Where Should Prospective Ministers Go To College?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"question<\/a>C. Michael Pat\u00adton over at Parch\u00adment and Pen (one of my favorite blogs), recent\u00adly offered some thoughts on enter\u00ading min\u00adistry<\/a>. He made a state\u00adment that has always seemed like com\u00admon sense to me, but that I know many peo\u00adple find objec\u00adtion\u00adable: <\/p>\n

If pos\u00adsi\u00adble, go to a sec\u00adu\u00adlar uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty for under\u00adgrad and an Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal sem\u00adi\u00adnary for your mas\u00adters. You need expo\u00adsure to both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve long been mys\u00adti\u00adfied that as a mat\u00adter of course we iso\u00adlate prospec\u00adtive min\u00adis\u00adters from their cul\u00adture for 4 years (more if they go to sem\u00adi\u00adnary after\u00adwards). Sure\u00adly there\u2019s a case to be made for tak\u00ading our prospec\u00adtive young min\u00adis\u00adters and forc\u00ading them to solid\u00adi\u00adfy their own faith and also min\u00adis\u00adter to their peers in a sec\u00adu\u00adlar set\u00adting. Let them prove that they can be both faith\u00adful and fruit\u00adful before they invest time and mon\u00adey in edu\u00adca\u00adtion that is use\u00adless out\u00adside of min\u00adistry.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure a Bible col\u00adlege is the ide\u00adal route for some peo\u00adple, but it seems to me that we should high\u00adlight sec\u00adu\u00adlar schools as a viable option. It\u2019s cer\u00adtain\u00adly borne good fruit for the Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal move\u00adment<\/a> and the impact in the larg\u00ader evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal world is even more impres\u00adsive (Tim Keller, any\u00adone?).<\/p>\n

I sup\u00adpose the most com\u00admon objec\u00adtion is that sec\u00adu\u00adlar col\u00adleges are harm\u00adful to faith, but that\u2019s just not true<\/a>. And even if it was, I don\u2019t think it would mat\u00adter that much. If some\u00adone who is plan\u00adning to enter min\u00adistry can\u2019t han\u00addle Intro to Soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy or the cam\u00adpus beer\u00adfest, then I real\u00adly don\u2019t want them preach\u00ading the gospel. They\u2019re a time bomb wait\u00ading to explode and take oth\u00aders with them.<\/p>\n

But some\u00adone who can thrive spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly at a sec\u00adu\u00adlar uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty and make a dif\u00adfer\u00adence for Christ on cam\u00adpus\u2026 give that per\u00adson a robust the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal edu\u00adca\u00adtion and then turn them loose in the pul\u00adpit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C. Michael Pat\u00adton over at Parch\u00adment and Pen (one of my favorite blogs), recent\u00adly offered some thoughts on enter\u00ading min\u00adistry. He made a state\u00adment that has always seemed like com\u00admon sense to me, but that I know many peo\u00adple find objec\u00adtion\u00adable: If pos\u00adsi\u00adble, go to a sec\u00adu\u00adlar uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty for under\u00adgrad and an Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal sem\u00adi\u00adnary for \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWhere Should Prospec\u00adtive Min\u00adis\u00adters Go To Col\u00adlege?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-B5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}