JOwen
Puritan Board Junior
(1) Pastor and session invests time and energy in fathers and families to raise up Godly men.
(2) Children are well educated and their hearts are trained. Young men are encouraged to desire eldership and the ministry if that gift is noticed early on.
(3) Pastor and elders identify the young men who have the acumen and desire for ministry.
and then begin the list above.
In other words, the Church should be organically training and identifiying people.
Amen to this. Valid point to be sure!
I honestly believe that if Church's would reform the manner in which they identify and participate in the training of men that Seminaries would be very willing partners in that effort.
I would like to think you are right in this brother. However don't you think that some seminaries are such massive engines, that to change the model would be the removing of many secondary teaching and administrative positions? I would think the hired Ph.D's might have something to say about changing the method.