Preachers need REAL classroom training as well as OJT
ANSWER NUMBER SIX: Preachers need REAL classroom training as well as OJT (On the Job Training) in order to be effective ministers. Unqualified preachers are killing churches!
In too many of our churches (I am talking to Black folks) we have the ancient slave mentality that says, “I don’t need to go to school to be a preacher, I got the anointing!” Well during the days of slavery and Jim Crow we didn’t have an opportunity to go to Seminary or Bible Colleges. My grandfather was a deacon and his brother was a pastor back in the days when folks only got a grade school education and had to quit because they had to help pick tobacco. My forefathers made due the best they could under harsh circumstances. Now there is NO excuse for a preacher not getting formal training! You may not be able to afford Harvard or Princeton Theological Seminary, but every denomination should have a local Bible school. Most churches today have their own Bible Institutes or Schools. When you accepted the call to preach you also accepted the call to discipleship (training). Jesus spent 3 years training His disciples for ministry. He taught them how to pray, how to cast out devils, how to lay hands on the sick, how to carry themselves, and how to make more disciples. I am disgusted at how easy it is to be ordained in our churches. Just because a brother or sister can testify loud or run their mouth doesn’t mean they are called to preach! If they are called they will be willing to be trained BEFORE being given a piece of paper ordaining them. Remember this, if the preacher is ignorant and unlearned, then the people will be too! The gospel preacher must devote his (or her) life to purity of doctrine. Paul warned Timothy to avoid fables and old wives tales. It’s very easy for preachers to get involved in the “flavor of the month” teachings.
In too many of our churches (I am talking to Black folks) we have the ancient slave mentality that says, “I don’t need to go to school to be a preacher, I got the anointing!” Well during the days of slavery and Jim Crow we didn’t have an opportunity to go to Seminary or Bible Colleges. My grandfather was a deacon and his brother was a pastor back in the days when folks only got a grade school education and had to quit because they had to help pick tobacco. My forefathers made due the best they could under harsh circumstances. Now there is NO excuse for a preacher not getting formal training! You may not be able to afford Harvard or Princeton Theological Seminary, but every denomination should have a local Bible school. Most churches today have their own Bible Institutes or Schools. When you accepted the call to preach you also accepted the call to discipleship (training). Jesus spent 3 years training His disciples for ministry. He taught them how to pray, how to cast out devils, how to lay hands on the sick, how to carry themselves, and how to make more disciples. I am disgusted at how easy it is to be ordained in our churches. Just because a brother or sister can testify loud or run their mouth doesn’t mean they are called to preach! If they are called they will be willing to be trained BEFORE being given a piece of paper ordaining them. Remember this, if the preacher is ignorant and unlearned, then the people will be too! The gospel preacher must devote his (or her) life to purity of doctrine. Paul warned Timothy to avoid fables and old wives tales. It’s very easy for preachers to get involved in the “flavor of the month” teachings.
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Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on July 30, 2009 at 2:50pm
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YES IN SOME WAYS I AGREE WITH YOU. I BELIVE IN ED. ITS A GOOD THING BUT THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED AN ED FOOL . I WENT TO SCHOOL AND OBTAIN MY DDA DEGREE BUT THAT DIDNT MAKE ME READY TO BE A PASTOR . IF GOD DIDNT CALL YOU OR CHOSE YOU TO BE A PASTOR YOU WILL NOT BE EFFACTIVE AT IT . THAT GOD BUIESS BUT I AGREE WE ALL NEED TRAINING AND IT THE PASTOR JOB TO TRAIN THE YOUNGER MINSTERS . I BELIVE THE REASON A LOT OF CHURCHES ARE DEAD IS BECAUSE GOD DIDNT PLACE THEM THERE AND IT NOT THERE ED LEVEL BUT MAN PLACE THEM THERE CAUSE YOU CAN BE TOO ED AND SPIRITAULLY DEAD IN OTHER WORD ED FOOL. SO I SAY TO ANY YOUNG MINSTER WHO IS SEEK ED KEEP GOD FIRST AND DONT LET YOUR ED KILL THE HOLYSPIRIT INSIDE OF YOU AND I DO AGREE WITH PASTOR MARK TOO MOST PASTOR SDO NOT KNOW HOW TO CONDUCT THEMSELF OR GOD CHURCH BUT IF YOU CANT GO TO SCHOOL THERE ARE A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THE CHIRSTIAN BOOK STORE READING IS VERY INPORTANT MOST OF ALL STUDY GOD WORD
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