Theology/School to Preach
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You don't need to be "licensed" to teach and preach. You just need to find a street corner.
However, if you want to do so in a church, you must conform to that church's requirements for adequate and appropriate preparation, which may include licensing.
I believe that you will be better prepared to teach and preach if you have worked through the issues, learned the languages, understood church history and bible history, all of which you can learn at seminary (or a good university). The likelihood that you will learn all this on your own is small... but not impossibly so.
You don't need to be "licensed" to teach and preach. You just need to find a street corner.
However, if you want to do so in a church, you must conform to that church's requirements for adequate and appropriate preparation, which may include licensing.
I believe that you will be better prepared to teach and preach if you have worked through the issues, learned the languages, understood church history and bible history, all of which you can learn at seminary (or a good university). The likelihood that you will learn all this on your own is small... but not impossibly so.
I would expect that if you want the governments approval to perform weddings and funerals you need to have proper paperwork. Now most men of God will tell you that a call to preach is a call to prepare.
There are too many pulpits occupied by men who are self appointed and lack divine anointing of God.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
There are too many pulpits occupied by men who are self appointed and lack divine anointing of God.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
That's not preaching so much as it is witnessing which all believers are called to do. Preaching requires study of and preparation in the scriptures to disciple a congregation of believers. Preachers disciple the flock and care for the sheep.
By all means go out onto the street corners and testify of the saving grace of God. But bring them in and get them under sound doctrinal preaching so they are not carried off by every wind of doctrine.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
By all means go out onto the street corners and testify of the saving grace of God. But bring them in and get them under sound doctrinal preaching so they are not carried off by every wind of doctrine.
For the cause of Christ
Roger
Who needs school when you have this:
https://www.themonastery.org/landin...MIv5yKy_vV2gIVibbACh2nHgnqEAAYASAAEgK4kfD_BwE
https://www.themonastery.org/landin...MIv5yKy_vV2gIVibbACh2nHgnqEAAYASAAEgK4kfD_BwE
Yes, they did not attend rabbinic schools, but were taught directly by Christ and the Holy Spirit. And this is still the privilege of all the children of God.
Which does not mean that you do not have to LABOR in the Word and doctrine. Indeed God expects you to work hard, and diligently study His Word. There is a difference between reading the Bible and studying Scripture.
Which does not mean that you do not have to LABOR in the Word and doctrine. Indeed God expects you to work hard, and diligently study His Word. There is a difference between reading the Bible and studying Scripture.
D
Preach and teach require lots of learning before doing either.
Pastoring a church requires lots of learning and a calling that includes others confirming that God has gifted you towards that. And, I don't think that requires a bachelor's degree. I think the person should already have a bachelor's degree in anything else. Then seminary is for a masters and a doctorate.
As for ministry? Everyone is supposed to have a ministry, so no schooling required for that, however an apprentice situation would be good, if you've never done it before, and it's an active ministry. (Active ministry -- evangelizing, prison or homeless or addiction ministries. Inactive ministries - mercy ministry, helps, and encouragement kinds of ministries.)
I think the church has gone downhill quite often because people would rather think ministering is a feeling instead of a listening.
Pastoring a church requires lots of learning and a calling that includes others confirming that God has gifted you towards that. And, I don't think that requires a bachelor's degree. I think the person should already have a bachelor's degree in anything else. Then seminary is for a masters and a doctorate.
As for ministry? Everyone is supposed to have a ministry, so no schooling required for that, however an apprentice situation would be good, if you've never done it before, and it's an active ministry. (Active ministry -- evangelizing, prison or homeless or addiction ministries. Inactive ministries - mercy ministry, helps, and encouragement kinds of ministries.)
I think the church has gone downhill quite often because people would rather think ministering is a feeling instead of a listening.
D
If you don't learn from life, what is a bachelor's degree except another four years of being taught how others want you to think and how to learn the lingo? I have a bachelor's degree. All that proved was I could do 17 years of school and learned the lingo. If I had it to do over again, I would have learned what I wasn't merely passionate about, but what I was good at too. And then, go get the bachelor's degree. Because then I would know what to look for out of all the stuff they're trying to plow in my brain.
If God had called me to preach or teach at a pastor's level, (which personally, I don't believe he did because I'm a women who knows enough men that are skilled at this, so we aren't needing women to fit in places we don't quite fit into), I would have only considered seminary after that bachelor's degree and after the Lord made sure -- loud and clear -- that he was calling me to do this. Not something I'd want to do, but something he insists I should do. And something he'd instill in me with the right talents to do.
I don't think pastoring is a cookie-cutter program. It's an education only after understanding what is lacking in previous education.
If God had called me to preach or teach at a pastor's level, (which personally, I don't believe he did because I'm a women who knows enough men that are skilled at this, so we aren't needing women to fit in places we don't quite fit into), I would have only considered seminary after that bachelor's degree and after the Lord made sure -- loud and clear -- that he was calling me to do this. Not something I'd want to do, but something he insists I should do. And something he'd instill in me with the right talents to do.
I don't think pastoring is a cookie-cutter program. It's an education only after understanding what is lacking in previous education.