Who Will Train the Churches’ Ministers? or The PRC Seminary: Door de kerk, voor de kerk (1)
Gritters argues for the necessity of ecclesiastical (church-governed) seminaries for training Protestant Reformed ministers, contrasting the PRC Seminary's model with para-church alternatives. The article reflects on the historical development of ministerial education and defends the principle that the church as an institute, rather than external organizations, should direct the training of its own preachers.
Who will train your and your children's future ministers? Who will govern the institution where your pastors are trained? This question is more difficult and more important than you might realize -- also for the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC), which might surprise you. Will you and your church train them, as you and your church band together with other churches of like precious faith, instituting a denominational, ecclesiastical seminary? Or will an organization, not from the church, and...
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