SolaGratia
Puritan Board Junior
"Seminary Education for the 21st Century: Something Old and Something New."
Audio: http://www.heidelbergseminary.org/SiteResources/data/files/HTSAddress2004 mp3.mp3
BTW, Paul Woolley frequently mention in the audio was a professor of Church History from "Old" Westminster Theological Seminary.
More info. concerning Prof. Woolley here: http://www.wts.edu/about/founders/woolley.html
Rev. Grossmann in the audio points out that:
-Pastors must serve the Church.
-A Higher Theological Education is only to be for the Ministry.
-Seminaries today have become Ivory Towers for higher education and therefore irrelevant for the Church.
-The only excuse for a higher theological education is for the Church.
-Seminary training/theological education should be a advance catechism class.
-Seminaries should train men how to preach, in order to save themselves and others ( 1 Tim. 4:16).
-Seminaries nowadays follow the European Graduate model for teaching men for the ministry, instead of following Jerusalem (the Biblical model). This European Model has failed the Church in Europe and the U.S.
-Seminary training has very often become too academic. It must be rigorous academic education, but at the same time be a vocational technical school giving vocational instruction and techniques on pastoral work, teaching and preaching.
-A Theological education is useless if it cannot be preach in the Church by competent men who can preach.
-The Word of God being taught requires submission to it.
-The Word of God is not neutral..If the Word of God does not get you, does not change you, you are not being train for the ministry.
-Human institutions are fallible.
-Seminary professors often think that they are the higher forms of life on earth and seminary students often come thinking that way and want to be seminary professors.
Much more in the above audio.
Audio: http://www.heidelbergseminary.org/SiteResources/data/files/HTSAddress2004 mp3.mp3
BTW, Paul Woolley frequently mention in the audio was a professor of Church History from "Old" Westminster Theological Seminary.
More info. concerning Prof. Woolley here: http://www.wts.edu/about/founders/woolley.html
Rev. Grossmann in the audio points out that:
-Pastors must serve the Church.
-A Higher Theological Education is only to be for the Ministry.
-Seminaries today have become Ivory Towers for higher education and therefore irrelevant for the Church.
-The only excuse for a higher theological education is for the Church.
-Seminary training/theological education should be a advance catechism class.
-Seminaries should train men how to preach, in order to save themselves and others ( 1 Tim. 4:16).
-Seminaries nowadays follow the European Graduate model for teaching men for the ministry, instead of following Jerusalem (the Biblical model). This European Model has failed the Church in Europe and the U.S.
-Seminary training has very often become too academic. It must be rigorous academic education, but at the same time be a vocational technical school giving vocational instruction and techniques on pastoral work, teaching and preaching.
-A Theological education is useless if it cannot be preach in the Church by competent men who can preach.
-The Word of God being taught requires submission to it.
-The Word of God is not neutral..If the Word of God does not get you, does not change you, you are not being train for the ministry.
-Human institutions are fallible.
-Seminary professors often think that they are the higher forms of life on earth and seminary students often come thinking that way and want to be seminary professors.
Much more in the above audio.
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