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<img src="https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/125867.jpg?w=540" width="540" /><p class="text">By Jeffry Blair, a Northern Seminary DMin graduate and pastor. He was asked by a group of leaders to advise them on how to finish seminary while in ministry and Jeff puts together a wise presentation for all of us.</p>
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<p class="text">I want to encourage you to complete your education. I hope to show you why you should and how you can. Here are six strategies for finishing your studies while you are up to your armpits in ministry.</p>
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<p class="text"><em>One - Feel the Weight </em></p>
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<p class="text">I was twenty-three years old in the fall of 1999 when I first stepped foot on the campus of Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. Each student received a copy of “The Religious Life of the Theological Student” by the Princeton theologian, B. B. Warfield, who said,</p>
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<p class="text">The ministry is a learned profession; and the man without learning, no matter with what other gifts he may be endowed, is unfit for its duties. But learning, though indispensable, is not the most indispensable thing for a minister. ‘Apt to teach’—yes, the minister must be.... Not apt merely to exhort, to beseech, to appeal, to entreat, not even merely to testify… but to teach. <em>And teaching implies knowledge:</em><em>he who teaches must know…</em> But aptness to teach alone does not make a minister; nor is it his primary qualification… <em>A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work.</em> But before and above being learned, a minister must be godly.<a href="#_ftn1" target="_blank" class="">[1]</a></p>
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<p class="text">Warfield was right, and this is the big idea of his speech: godliness is the indispensable attribute of the pastor. As Robert Murray M’Cheyne said, “A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.” Warfield was also at great pains, however, to contend that Christian pastors must be capable teachers (1 Timothy ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/october/six-reasons-to-finish-your-education.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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