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Essential to the seminary mission is instilling character.

June 3rd, 2009

In general, a theological seminary is an institution of advanced instructing composed of scholarly teachers, leaders and students devoted to the truth.  Essential to all academic study must be a dedication first to Jesus Christ as Superior Lord and second to the pursual of truth as a collective and personalized vocation.A Seminary should encourage key learned inquiry in an academic environment given to excellence in scholarship, a biblical worldview, spiritual insightfulness, and social conscience.  It needs to produce a ministerial equilibrium between the intellectual, earthly, and spiritual dedication to Christ, His Word and His service.Going To a seminary or bible college will equip men and women for dynamic roles in local Bible-believing churches and corresponding field ministries. The seminaries basic end is to train leaders who possess scholarly excellence beyond the median university or college.  Essential to the seminary mission is instilling character, heightening competency, and developing for service. Foundational to this school of thought is the thought that God has provided his veritable written revelation in the Bible, the Word of God. From this viewpoint the various studies and fields of discipline are researched, experienced, and applied.

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