At a church planting conference here in Hobart in early February, Bill Bosker a pastor of Kingston Christian Reformed Church and amember of the CRCA Theological College Committee, shared some thoughts:
Strengths
- Efficient form of knowledge transfer.
- Good context for indepth focus, especially for history, systematics and language study.
- Reminder that we need pastors who think theologically about their ministry.
- An aid for wider denominational cohesion.
- A good context for mentoring.
- Exposure to different models of ministry.
- Someone may do well in at theological college but be lousy at ministry.
- There is not a strong practical element to theological study.
- We remove students from local church ministry for years.
- It is expensive.
- It can easily be driven by accreditation requirements.
