Seminary and the Local Church

...........Seminaries have been the seedbed of doctrinal destruction historically. The seminaries of various denominations have corrupted the next generation of ministers of the churches, who then went on to corrupt the churches themselves.
The corruption flows from the seminary to the pew, never from the pew to the seminary. Academics with too much time on their hands just have to hear and tell of something new; if they were busy pastoring people, dealing with the realities of struggling saints in a local church, they would be less likely to go astray.
But the pressure to make a name for oneself, the hubris of youth, and the pride that knowledge puffs up is too much for many academics to bear, and off they go after novelty. Few can resist it.
Seminaries are like fire – good in their place, but exceedingly dangerous when out of control, and they get out of control when they get out of their place – that place of being led by pastors, not academics or businessmen, and being under the oversight of a local church, not standing independent of it.
The real question is this: Are the churches leading the seminaries, or are the seminaries leading the churches? Church led seminaries are the biblical model.

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