Saturday, September 29, 2007

I can't find 'seminary' in my concordance either

Q: What can the seminaries be doing to be training better pastors?
A: Well, we need to get back to Biblical studies and sound theology. But again, as the seminaries go, so goes the clergy. And as the clergy goes, so goes the church. We know that from around the world. The problem is that seminaries are from the academic world. And they’re almost slaves to whatever is latest and newest and the biggest fad in the academic community. And the last thing seminary professors want to be seen as is being out of touch, or being old-fashioned, or being obscurantist - that sort of thing. So that we have weak professors. I mean professors who don’t have the strength of conviction to stand in a world of skepticism. It’s a worldview issue here.
And I think you may see new models for education of clergy getting it back more to the local church and less dependent upon the professionals.

- R. C. Sproul [interview on Generations Radio - The 21st Century Reformation]

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