The last thing I believe needs to happen is the abandonment of the seminary system. Leaders of the Church are meant to be trained by a single master. Jesus as you know trained the 12 as well and many others but His core focus was on the twelve for training purposes. Peter trained Clement. John trained Polycarp and Ignatius. Paul trained Timothy and Titus. They worked and learned in real life and not in a theoretical classroom. On the job training we would call it today.
um...i'll stay with seminaries for better or for worse.
at least they all have names and i can check to see what they teach and believe and know about that denom.
one person 'training' another means that one person is passing along his own presuppositions and whatnot.
so where is the accountability in that?
a few men ordaining each other? what if i disagree with their theology?
hmm...no theologians?
no historians or linguists? no colleges or high schools?
i dunno....sounds too NAR-ish to me.
Is s not only the responsibility of the clergy to see that these things are done. The church is every single individual that as repented and accepted the gift of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a report that claims the 2.1 billion people today are Christians. How many of them do you think are clergy? The proper ration for a congregation is one Pastor to every 100 members. There simply are not enough clergy to do the entire job. To have a reawakening will require the whole church not just the clergy.
In Christ,
Bishop SEH
but you practically did away with the clergy.
by doing away with seminaries.
how will i know what any group of clergy teaches?
who will be the lead Apostles or whoever going around making sure the lay clergy teach the right things?
see, in the church i attend, discipling isn't really a separate thing from just abiding and remaining in the faith in the church.
if you are born, raised and grow up and old in the church, you
are being discipled.
k...thx