Category: Spiritual life
Intellect or Love?
Here’s a poll question to inform our post coming this Thursday. [poll=2]
Category: General, Spiritual life
Bursting the Seminary Bubble
Bryan Lilly wrote a great post about the pretension and unreality that is bred by the academic environment at seminary. He calls it being in “academic mode.” Here’s an excerpt: I can be at the ready to discuss at length why I’m an amillennialist, but I’m afraid to come up to that same person and [...]
Category: Spiritual life
You want me to do WHAT??
“Learn to…” Series, Part three: Learn to Submit to Authority You will always be under someone’s authority. Always. Even if you plant the next megachurch, lead a staff of hundreds, and have tens of thousands flocking to hear you preach every weekend, you will still be under authority. And I don’t mean just the authority [...]
Category: Spiritual life
Learn to Share Your Faith
When I was in seminary, I didn’t share my faith much. Most of the time I was pretty nervous about it. Part of this was a horrible misconception about evangelism, and part was the reality that I had not grown comfortable with who I was in Christ. There were plenty of others like me in [...]
Category: Spiritual life
Learn to Pray
This may be the most important post I ever write. While you’re in seminary, before you launch out into full-time ministry, you must learn to pray. Nothing in your life will determine the power of your ministry and your survival in its stresses more than the strength of your personal prayer life. From J. Oswald [...]
Category: Spiritual life
Knowledge Is Not Life
One of the dangers of seminary to your spiritual life is that so much emphasis and time is spent on the expansion of your knowledge base. Hidden within the academic environment is the deadly assumption that knowledge is what qualifies you for ministry. It’s not. What qualifies you for ministry is the life of God [...]
Category: Spiritual life
