Archive for July, 2014
For the Church: Theological Education, the SBC & the Future of Midwestern Seminary (Part VII)
This post was originally published on 20 May 2013. Teach these Things to Faithful Men who Will Be Able to Teach Others Also A call to ministry is a call to be equipped to minister. To be sure, one need not possess a seminary degree to have a faithful ministry. Many preachers lacking formal theological Read more
For the Church: Theological Education, the SBC & the Future of Midwestern Seminary (VI)
This post was originally published 13 May 2013. The Proof Is in the Graduates How does one determine a seminary’s effectiveness? Modern institutional benchmarks include endowment size, capital projects initiated and completed, enrollment growth, campus attractiveness, and other such pragmatic and aesthetic indicators. While these standards are not irrelevant, they are not paramount either. If Read more
For the Church: Theological Education, the SBC & the Future of Midwestern Seminary (V)
This post was originally published on 22 April 2013. First Things First: Training Pastors, Teachers & Evangelists for the Church. Harvard University stands as one of America’s truly elite universities. Founded in 1636, Harvard is America’s oldest institution of higher learning, and also its most storied. Boasting a corpus of more than $32 billion, it Read more
For the Church: Theological Education, the SBC & the Future of Midwestern Seminary (IV)
This post was originally published on 15 April 2013. Southern Baptist: By Conviction, by Culture, by Determination. Midwestern Seminary’s vision is simple, yet full: she exists for the Church. This purpose both defines our institutional to-be list, and it drives our institutional to-do list. To exist for the Church, however, does not quite tell the Read more
For the Church: Theological Education, the SBC & the Future of Midwestern Seminary (III)
Since Southern Baptists founded their first seminary in 1859, the denomination has experienced an uneasy relationship between her seminaries and the churches that own them. Though the year 2013 finds the seminaries very much in line with the denomination’s confessional statement—the Baptist Faith & Message 2000—such has not always been the case. Moreover, a survey of the history of theological education indicates the need for churches to keep an ever-vigilant eye on the seminaries they own. Read more