While Australian and American theological colleges worry about not enough students, and a glut of PhDs for too few payable teaching positions, in the Majority World there are Bible colleges and seminaries inundated with students, an enormous thirst and need for educated ministry workers, and not enough qualified instructors. What's wrong with this picture?
Certainly on site study was invaluable for me. Worth the 2-3hrs of driving each day. Though not the greatest student, face to face learning, debate, in small and large issues, pastoral care by staff helped enormously in formation and ministry approach. The staff showed care and love for students as well as academic excellence in many ways
From the 1970s to the 1990s, I was deeply affected and schooled by the theological giants at TEDS. It is sad for me to see it go north to Canada. Having been ordained by the EFC, I was blessed and enriched by its theological traditions.
While Australian and American theological colleges worry about not enough students, and a glut of PhDs for too few payable teaching positions, in the Majority World there are Bible colleges and seminaries inundated with students, an enormous thirst and need for educated ministry workers, and not enough qualified instructors. What's wrong with this picture?
Certainly on site study was invaluable for me. Worth the 2-3hrs of driving each day. Though not the greatest student, face to face learning, debate, in small and large issues, pastoral care by staff helped enormously in formation and ministry approach. The staff showed care and love for students as well as academic excellence in many ways
It would be interesting to see how it might work to incorporate churches as bases of such education.
From the 1970s to the 1990s, I was deeply affected and schooled by the theological giants at TEDS. It is sad for me to see it go north to Canada. Having been ordained by the EFC, I was blessed and enriched by its theological traditions.