Dale Partridge - Why Enrolling Reformation Seminary Is So Important？

00:00:00.000 Well, if you're like me, you spent the early part of your life in the traditional American church,

00:00:10.220 then you're probably feeling a sense that there's got to be something more to what the Lord intended

00:00:15.440 for church. The sound theology they bring and how that fits into a house church model specifically

00:00:20.180 and the incredible community. I love the fact that Reformation Seminary takes the liturgies

00:00:26.240 and beautiful structure of what church should be and just makes it work and makes it thrive within

00:00:31.920 the house model if a man knows and feels he has that calling to be a pastor this is where he is

00:00:38.160 going to get sharpened and refined and the skills and the knowledge he's going to need to be able to

00:00:43.520 do that and do that faithfully the challenge i mean challenge is good i think the material is

00:00:49.440 challenging i think a guy who doesn't have a lot of tools and doesn't feel like he has time or

00:00:54.480 money to go through a five-year seminary program. It provides an equipping that is going to get you

00:00:59.920 ready to stand before a congregation. For clarity, just to kind of hone in and tighten up what I

00:01:06.240 believed about God and then be equipped to go out and plant. I had a desire to be in ministry. I

00:01:12.220 believe God called me to be in ministry. Learning how to truly exposit the text and look for the

00:01:17.860 main points and the historical and grammatical context was literally life-changing when it comes

00:01:23.060 to preparing a sermon it's letting the text teach me what god wants people to know and not me going

00:01:28.820 into the text trying to figure out what i wanted to teach what i found in reformation seminary

00:01:33.540 was one it was reformed two it was confessional and three it was just it was orthodox and there

00:01:41.860 was such an emphasis on intentional time of meeting in the house feeling prepared and equipped to go

00:01:49.380 out and do ministry and do it faithfully the relationships i built here will probably be ones

00:01:52.900 of a lifetime and men all need to lean on as we all grow our ministries and encounter hardships

00:01:58.740 and trials along the way to go out and plant a house church wanted to be equipped to go and do

00:02:03.460 that and do it well being able to get quality teaching and experience in a year's worth of time

00:02:10.500 it was a no-brainer a person can come to reformation seminary and have absolutely no

00:02:16.260 background in preaching and still come away from it fully equipped to be able to plant a house

00:02:21.860 church and to preach to that congregation and minister to them effectively and correctly

00:02:29.380 and edify them spiritually week in and week out for me it's been a it's been a great blessing

00:02:34.660 it's been a great challenge and lord julie used it to sanctify in a lot of ways if you want more

00:02:41.220 for yourself and more for your family and more for the Lord's Church, join Reformation Seminary

00:02:46.180 and learn how to start your own.

Dale Partridge - September 06, 2022