Given the fact that God gifts His People the way He so desires, and it is the seminary who teaches and guides how and what a person will preach, which seminary (to the best of your knowledge) best prepares and 'produces' (if I could use that term) the best preachers?

Remember,
I am not saying which one you went to or which is the best BAPTIST or PRESBYTERIAN seminary.

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Andrew Barnes
Husband to Dena
Redeemer Church, candidate of the MVP in the PCA
MDiv graduate from Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS
Pastor (elect) of Tchula Presbyterian Church, Tchula, MS

"What do you think about when you are not thinking about anything else? This is what you worship!"

You forgot my alma mater, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary!

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Nathan Eshelman
Grand Rapids, MI
First Reformed Presbyterian Church

PRESBYTERIAN THOUGHTS

First Reformed Presbyterian Church

One of my favorite preachers, John Weaver, went to BJU.

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Sorry, I knew I was going to forget some seminaries. I was having too much fun putting in "Talbot" and such.

I went to SBTS... so...

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Ben
Sanford, NC
TE Ohio Valley Presbytery, PCA

I voted for SBTS. How could I not?

You had New Orleans, but not Southwestern. At one time I would have said Southwestern 'produced' the best preachers in the SBC, but I'd give the nod to Southern now.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor
Maranatha Baptist Church
Poplar Grove, Illinois USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org/
Husband to Nancy
Father to Sherril, Sarah, Kathryn
Grandfather to Phillip
Faith is the refusal to panic. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Where's Mid-America?

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Rev. Lane Keister
Teaching Elder, PCA, North Dakota (working out of bounds in a CRC and an RCA church)
http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com
http://brahmsgreenglove.blogspot.com
http://accenttranslation.blogspot.com

Mid-America Reformed? It's there.

Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. You don't want it there.

Rpts!!!

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church

Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
My Blog

I voted for WTS-PA only because I know more men who went there. And most of them were good preachers.

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Kevin Rogers
Mount Zion ARP
Moncton NB

LIBERTY!

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Donald P. Grubb
theol46@embarqmail.com

Berean Baptist Church, Mansfield, OH
Mansfield, OH

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Brother, an interesting story.

I invited Bro. Weaver to preach at our PCA church in GA a few years ago. I invited one of his former (BJU) profs, who was at that time teaching at Temple Baptist. The prof told me when I stopped by his office to invite him (I had taken a few classes from him myself) that he had taught 10,000 students over the years! He said that no one he had ever taught, or even heard of, knew the scriptures as well as Pastor Weaver!

If you have ever heard Bro. Weaver preach, you know what he meant.

I'm pretty sure this is in Memphis across from Bellevue. Am I wrong?

I keep hoping there are closet Calvinists there in case I ever want to take some classes from the evil Baptists one day. I would be hoping past hope then, wouldn't I? Or would I?

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing." -Titus 3:13
http://foolish-wisdom.blogspot.com/

Remember,
I didn't say which one you went to or which is the best BAPTIST seminary.

Nobody's chosen Dallas Theological Seminary yet?

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Protestant Reformed Seminary

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Bert Mulder
Elder of the First Protestant Reformed Church of Edmonton
Edmonton Alberta Canada

I think WSC has helped equip some great preachers. I can think of many off the top of my head. However, I bet there are probably 5 people in the whole country who are qualified to answer this question. And, I'm not one.

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Christopher
Escondido OPC (Escondido, CA)
M.Div. Student at Westminster Seminary California

I don't think Seminaries make/produce preachers. And given the artificial setting in which they attempt to teach homiletics in the classroom setting, I'm not convinced that they are able to prepare students for the pulpit ministry from the standpoint of homiletical studies.

This is not an argument against seminaries, nor should it be construed that I don't like or support them. On the contrary, I think that many of them do a great job of giving men a theological education. I have many delightful memories, and learned many invaluable lessons that I would not have learned otherwise. But I do not think they produce preachers.

I guess I think too much like D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in this respect...
Now, unlike Lloyd-Jones, I do think that "a born preacher" can improve greatly, especially as he grows and matures, but I do not believe that seminaries produce good preachers.

DTK

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Sola Scriptura est norma normans non normata
David T. King, pastor
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Elkton, Maryland
Augustine (354-430): Therefore what He [i.e., Christ] has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked. NPNF1: Vol. VII, Tractates on John, Tractate XXII, §1.

This is why I said, "Produces".

Yes, I know. That's why I said "produce/produces."

DTK