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BURN THE SEMINARY TO SAVE THE CHURCH?
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In today's church a man can spend $100,000 going to Bible school and seminary for just tuition alone. Then add living expenses for 4 to 7 years without a real income.
Why?
Why are we sending young men and women thousands of miles from their home churches and into decades of debt?
Is someone serving themselves instead of God? How much did Paul charge Timothy to train him for the ministry? Why has the biblical model been replaced by a super-expensive, non-biblical bucket of nonsense like the Bible-school-and-seminary system. Is there another way to get biblical training without this sort of compromise?
I think so. And I'll prove it. A series called "Burn the Seminary" will follow the current series on The Lost Doctrine of Holiness.
Now find all the classes you want in Hebrew, Greek, hermeneutics, philosophy, theology, and apologetics. So go to the JTBA website and find out how to register.
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Thanks for sharing that! Many church folk have no idea.
Howdy, Reb.
How are you?
That's interesting history. It explains so much. I kind of knew this stuff, having lived through the last decades of it. I didn't really get a great handle on it until I read a book on that history.
It's by Rolland McCune and it's called Promise Unfulfilled, The Failed Strategy of Modern Evangelisalism. It's kind of a tough read, but McCune documents everything he has to say. It's accurate history and it's accurate.
You wouldn't believe the big names who sold out. It's SO shocking.
Anyway, great to hear from you.
Phil Perkins.
Hi Phil:
I really appreciate your blog, I learn alot. We have talked in the past so I am not new to you. I have a question, do you have an article that you can point to on Biblical separation? This is an interesting idea and has been going on in the back of my mind, especially as I read 1 John today.
Thanks,
Terry
Terry,
No, I can't say I do know of a good article on that specific subject.
I Cor. 5 is a good read. We aren't to separate from the non-Christian. We are to separate from the "Christian" who remains in unrepentant sin. That is a different ethic than under the Old Covenant. The OT saints were to shun the pagan and fellowship with the physical people of Israel. Hence Jesus went to Temple and worshiped there.
I still have two or three article in the holiness series. Sorry for being so slow. I'll let everything else go and do those in the next two weeks, if God so wills.
God bless you, Young Man.
Phil Perkins.
Terry,
Those two articles will deal with exactly what you're asking about.
Phil.
I'm doing well. Phil. Thanks for asking. I trust you are well. Your blog certainly indicates that you are contending for The Faith with vigor. I'll put that book on my reading list. Thanks!
I do not think that churches were ever supposed to become big organizations. All the big ones seem to become mammon machines and the men leading them become filthy with corruption. Godless power seeks itself.
I've been busy working and overcoming my dis-education from public school. I began studying history and philosophy in response to Emergence.
My concern came down to one question: How could so many people say they love the Bible and profess the antithesis of the Gospel? The answer to that is; "god-professing" people become irrational from embracing godlessness. Mysticism is brought it to fill the void that results from abandoning a godly combination of biblical reason and biblical faith.
History and scholarship are important. Churches seem to have despised those two things for so long that they've become the de facto purview of the "Progressives" (regressors). Many church folk have a mystical aversion to scholarship, thanks to mystics and confidence men in roles of church leadership. They've been like termites, destroying the structural strength of churches. This all goes to show what those churches were made of.
And the left has become stupid too by embracing irrational philosophies. Emergence is an evil movement posing as intelligent and rational. It is the antithesis of those things. But most people will be blind to the obfuscation and deception, because they've become ignorant of the fundamentals of logic and reason. The Emergers are just as ignorant, because they replace biblical theology with sophistry and realpolitik.
Knowledge is the currency of Reason. Rationality is the way to Knowledge. Irrational philosophies deny knowledge and therefore subvert Reason. Our public schools have have been teaching Marxism and relativism for decades ( See Iserbyt - http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com). The ability of Americans to think rationally is sorely compromised. We've robbed ourselves of reason and the knowledge to make it go.
Jesus Christ is presented to us in the Holy Bible as both Wisdom (1 Corinthians) and Law (Galatians). To reject Christ is reject sanity and embrace the antithesis of wisdom and law. It's just that simple, embrace stupidity and become stupid. Isaiah 29 and Romans 10 & 11 practically spell it out. People who read dishonestly are corrupt in their thinking. Their ability to read with understanding will henceforth be subverted.
The good news is that there is a Logos that transcends all of that. He is the Word Made Flesh. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. We need to fill our minds with the Word from the words of the Holy Bible. We need to read all 66 books, earnestly seeking godly understanding from the Holy Spirit as we read. We need to make sure that the Bible is transmitted and directly communicated to our people. Christ, the Logos, will use the words of God to communicate sanity to men, if we only obey His commandment to carry it and communicate it.
The Emergers have it totally backwards, the Word is supposed to deconstruct us!
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