mesue said:
Nor does well educated mean capable.
mesue said:I expected as much, and you are entitled to think.
Is this a written law somewhere? This 3 hour limit? What if they can only pray 2:59:59? Does that count?
Anyway, I've been a nurse for more than 16 years. Experiance takes over after a fashion. I had a few Catholic Priest friends, and a few Pastor friends. I find that scholarly education counts for little if you're not in God's will. And squat if you do nothing but profile with it. As I've seem some pompus "went to Hebrew school" church leaders do. More commonly known as Religiously Lost Gas Bags. Or tinkling cymbols as Paul so aptly put it.
Peace be unto you.
lionroar0 said:In OBOB we were discussing the level of eduction a priest has before becoming ordained. Education level of Catholic Priests.
Then I started wondering what level of educations non-catholic pastors have.
So here it goes. What level of education do non-catholic pastors?
Peace
mesue said:I expected as much, and you are entitled to think.
Is this a written law somewhere? This 3 hour limit? What if they can only pray 2:59:59? Does that count?
Anyway, I've been a nurse for more than 16 years. Experiance takes over after a fashion. I had a few Catholic Priest friends, and a few Pastor friends. I find that scholarly education counts for little if you're not in God's will. And squat if you do nothing but profile with it. As I've seem some pompus "went to Hebrew school" church leaders do. More commonly known as Religiously Lost Gas Bags. Or tinkling cymbols as Paul so aptly put it.
Peace be unto you.
mesue said:I don't think I missed the point at all. I think it was you that had missed the point. But that's okay. I don't have issue with it. Far more people seemed to have gotten my point than hadn't. And even if it weren't so, in the bigger picture, it just doesn't matter who got what point. It doesn't matter to God who has a bigger better education. He used "uneducated" fishermen to bring more people to a personal relationship with Him than any Hebrew School Tinkling Cymbol could ever hope to. And isn't that the goal? To bring the lost to the Lord? To show the saved how to walk, as the fishermen did?
Peace be unto you
Not a problemPeaceful Dove said:Hi
If I seemed to be snippy with you, I am terribly sorry, please forgive me.
I had thought you had missed the point of what I was saying.
I have had so many direct hits from a few on this forum that I may have sounded defensive about you putting words in my mouth.
I am relieved to know that you were not.
This was exactly the point I was trying to make. Your experience was a far greater teacher than any education could offer. Which was my point when I said that there are some LPN's that would rival the the talents of some RN's. There are some LPN's I know that I would let treat me before some RN's I know. Why? Because of their gifts and experience. The same goes with being a Pastor.Peaceful Dove said:... I worked for many years within the field of veterinary medicine. I was not a Vet, but being a Professional Horse breeder for 35 years, our local horse vets made use of my expertise and often asked me to accompany them on their rounds or for unusual cases. They also made much use of my own education in research. I respected the knowledge they had and they, in turn respected mine.
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I once was a member of a church where we had what we called a lay pastor. In other words, he had no formal training at a seminary. Does it really take going to a seminary or college for however many years to preach the gospel?
I've read stories about a lot of young men's faith being destroyed by professors at some of these Bible colleges who don't even believe the Bible. I really hope that's not true.
If their faith could be broken by one professor, in Bible College it could have been more easily broken by a congregation in their church. Having said that, I don't advocate liberal teaching in Bible colleges, at all.Lynn73 said:I once was a member of a church where we had what we called a lay pastor. In other words, he had no formal training at a seminary. Does it really take going to a seminary or college for however many years to preach the gospel? I've read stories about a lot of young men's faith being destroyed by professors at some of these Bible colleges who don't even believe the Bible. I really hope that's not true.
jinkazama said:The more the pastor knows, the more he able to construct a holistic argument. I prefer someone has a PhD. in theology, counseling, and in science.
Lynn73 said:I once was a member of a church where we had what we called a lay pastor. In other words, he had no formal training at a seminary. Does it really take going to a seminary or college for however many years to preach the gospel? I've read stories about a lot of young men's faith being destroyed by professors at some of these Bible colleges who don't even believe the Bible. I really hope that's not true.