{"id":1346,"date":"2015-08-31T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:26:06","slug":"balance-between-academics-content-and-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/balance-between-academics-content-and-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance Between Academics (Content) and Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished reading <em>The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision<\/em> (Zondervan) by two pastors Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson.\u00a0 It was quite interesting.\u00a0 I recommend it to you for your consideration although at certain points, which I will not go into here, I have some disagreements.\u00a0 But the good thing about the book is its desire to have theological thinking done by pastors in our churches.\u00a0 In fact, the divide between the Academy (the Seminaries) and the Church is a concern they are trying to address.\u00a0 There is a ditch on each side of the road.\u00a0 I have seen men who can parse every Greek and Hebrew verb but don&#8217;t seem to have any great desire to walk across the street and tell somebody about Jesus.\u00a0 On the other hand, I have had lunch with pastors who, after we have gone through the Roman&#8217;s Road, have nothing to talk about.\u00a0 Academic minutiae on one side.\u00a0 Shallowness on the other.\u00a0 God spare us from both.\u00a0 At Baptist Bible Seminary where I serve we have tried to bring balance to our training of pastors.\u00a0 Even our seminary journal is named <em>The Journal of Ministry and Theology<\/em> for a reason.\u00a0 We are a resource for the Church.\u00a0 The book I mentioned at the start of\u00a0this blog is one attempt to bring balance from one side of the ledger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished reading The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision (Zondervan) by two pastors Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson.\u00a0 It was quite interesting.\u00a0 I recommend it to you for your consideration although at certain points, which I will not go into here, I have some disagreements.\u00a0 But the good thing about the book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}