Don’t get me wrong about Bible Colleges, Seminaries and Theological Colleges. I think they’re great. Really.
My chief frustration is, that as trade schools for pastoral ministry, their training emphases don’t always seem to align with the actual work which their graduates end up performing.
Anyway, Patrick Schreiner provides ten great pieces of counsel for those studying, or considering studying, at one of these institutions.
They serve to point out how theological education can prepare a person for ministry.
Each of these is a link to an individual post at Schreiner’s blog.
All of them are subject to his eleventh piece of counsel which is explained in the summary post.
The windup of my 10 pieces of counsel:
- Take the hardest classes.
- Learn the Languages.
- Take some professors who will teach you the art of exegesis, and others who will teach you the science.
- Be in ministry/don’t be in ministry.
- Take teachers, not classes.
- Concerning grades.
- Stay away from distance learning.
- Take teachers who will teach you a method.
- Go for depth and breadth.
- Seek out a mentor.
- In sum: Love God and do as you please.
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