A Bible College training is sometimes dismissed as preparing students to face every challenge of previous generations.
It can seem otherworldly and out of touch. And are Bible Colleges in danger of removing capable people from the secular world and isolating them in the bubbles of Christian ministry?
We busy ourselves in the world, of course, but we often do so simply because we must. Are we cultural beings who belong to the culture around us or merely passing pilgrims with little to no obligation to a world fated to fade? How, as Michael Horton once quipped, could we sing both This World Is Not My Home and This Is My Father’s World?
Is it ungodly to work on your sermon delivery?
‘Just preach the word brother’, said the older preacher to his young apprentice. The younger man had expressed a desire …