Posts Tagged ‘Midwestern Seminary’

Next week Midwestern Seminary will be hosting The SBC & the 21st Century: Reflection, Renewal & Recommitment. This event, slated for September 28th and 29th, is the first installment of a triennial symposium series intended to engage issues vital to Southern Baptist identity, heritage, and future.

The symposium presentations will offer insights and assessments on the SBC and its future. These will be hopeful presentations of where the Southern Baptist Convention is, and where we must go. Read more

As an institution that exists for the Church, Midwestern Seminary abides under an Ephesians 4 mandate, equipping pastors, ministers and missionaries for local church service. While not every graduate will minister within a local church setting, seminary students should view their calling through the prism of serving the church.

In the world of theological education, the Master of Divinity degree has long since been the gold standard for ministry preparation, and its sole status is well deserved. In it one finds the complete toolkit for ministry service: Greek and Hebrew, New Testament and Old Testament, theology, church history, preaching, pastoral care and counseling, evangelism, missions, and much, much more.

Yet, in many seminaries the Master of Divinity degree has fallen on hard times. In recent years, shorter and less rigorous Master of Arts degrees have syphoned off students from the Master of Divinity degree. Read more

Last week I was privileged to be interviewed by Jonathan Howe at SBC This Week on the upcoming symposium that Midwestern Seminary is hosting entitled “The SBC and the 21st Century: Reflection, Renewal, and Recommitment”. You can check it out here.

This morning the Washington Times posted my interview with Scott Lamb on the future of the SBC and the upcoming symposium SBC and the 21st Century: Reflection, Renewal, and Recommitment. Check out my interview here.