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Originally Posted by shackleton  Don't let anyone who lives thousands of miles away from you shatter all your dreams. There are ways you can get an education without going to a traditional seminary. Plenty of places offer degrees on line both bachelor and masters. I agree if you are not wanting to be a pastor don't bother with and M-DIV or a B-DIV which is basically an M-DIV without the languages. A traditional M -DIV is about 100-120 hours where an MAR is much shorter and has the same theological emphasis. You can get bachelors degrees completely on line from places like Moody Bible Institute. The PCA will accept degrees from Whitefield Seminary for ordination, and you can get both bachelors and masters and M/B-DIV's if you want.
An outward call is when you work around the people in charge and people in the church and they begin to see something in you and think that you would be good as a minister and that you should pursue ministry of some sort. Nowadays there are plenty of things you can do in the ministry with out being a pastor or missionary. Don't take the advice of one or two people who try to talk you out of what you have a desire to do, follow it through you never know what might happen. |
I'm not sure what there is to talk out of. The OP said that he did
not want to be a minister:
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I currently cant say that I want to be a preacher or a missionary. I have said for a few years now, and say now that i want to go to seminary to learn much more deeply about Scripture- particularly in reading in original tounges.
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He furthermore said that his church did not see evidence of gifts in him to support him in a calling (which would make sense, if he says that he does not want to be in ministry anyway).
Seminary is a place for pastors to be trained, not a place for laymen who want to skip a college degree to dabble in the Bible.
That does not mean that he should
never go to seminary, or that he is forbidden, but dabbling will not do much good in the long term.