9 Perspectives That We Must Change about Church Re-examine Our Church Practices from a Biblical Viewpoint Over the past few months, I published a series of posts about assumptions we should change about church. Here is a list of all nine: We...
How Important Is Seminary for Today’s Church Leaders? Knowing Jesus and Hearing the Holy Spirit Is Better Than Formal Education Most all churches expect their clergy to have undergone formal, academic education. Many insist on a seminary degree...
Why I’m Against Seminary Training The first time someone said this to me, I was both excited and dismayed: “God’s calling me to full-time ministry—so I’m going to seminary.” Though I’ve now heard it many times since, my reaction is the same to...
The Truth about Seminary Seminary doesn’t prepare people for ministry; it merely meets manmade expectations I know many people who have gone to seminary. And I have friends who are going to seminary. I encourage them, pray for them, and once even...
What Do You Expect From Your Pastor? Ministers toil under a load of heavy demands that shouldn’t be there, and we need to change that I have read two stats about ministers that chafe at my soul. The first is that most pastors have no real...
Serving God, College, and Student Loans I once met a guy who wanted to work in broadcasting. So he went to college. In his four-year degree, taking some forty classes, guess how many applied to broadcasting? Just three. While having secondary...
