By: Rosita

Rosita — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:05:06 +0000

I agree, and think that any church with an Education Pastor slot, and detlnafeiy the youth pastor slot (look at the statistics of youth leaving church upon graduating HS) needs to have someone with an apologetics background fill that position. Too many churches have M.Div folks in almost all pastor positions these days, and as lauded as the M.Div programs are at just about every evangelical seminary out there, the quality of pastors and assistant pastors they have collectively produced across America is well, just look at the current state of evangelicalism and make the connections. I intentionally went for the apologetics program at Biola rather than an M.Div program anywhere so as to insure I don’t become part of the problem, but part of the solution with evangelicalism these days. As long as jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none M.Div degrees are held in such high esteem among evangelicals they NO LONGER deserve (maybe it was different thirty years ago), the same cookie-cutter people will be churned out of seminaries to lead our churches into the intellectual gutter. This may sound anecdotal, but every person I have met that got a M.Div in the last ten years from anywhere can’t really proclaim the Gospel, can’t exegete and exposit texts, and can’t answer tough questions. They just look for a post somewhere to give themselves the opportunity to spew out their versions of the five week sermon series on whatever latest relevant drivel that crosses their minds paired with three proof-texts or so. There is a correlation between the anemic modern evangelical churches and the seminary programs that put out the leaders of them armed with the M.Div as it is today.

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By: Rosita