Ryan Bolger at Fuller Theological Seminary is reflecting on what seminary might look like in the future. This is the first of four dreams in Dreams for My School. I particularly like the following.
A seminary training model is built around the idea that a single person or a set of staff workers has most of the gifts in a particular church community and then we train that one person or group of persons. But, what do we do when the gifts are spread throughout the community as they are in many new forms of church? How do we continue to train the many, rather than the few?
I dream that my seminary will move away from the professional training model and will equip entire communities for mission.
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