My friend Rev Benjamin Miller, a pastor from Long Island, joined me for a discussion of the relationship between doctrine and life.
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April 1st: Proverbs 30 and 1 Timothy 4
October 7th: 1 Kings 21 and 1 Peter 5
Transcript for Must the Pastor be a Gifted Theologian?
One of my supporters has very kindly transcribed this video on whether the pastor should be a gifted theologian. I don’t have time to transcribe my videos myself, so anyone willing to volunteer to transcribe one video every week or fortnight would be greatly appreciated! The transcript is very lightly edited at a few points for the purpose of comprehension.
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Must the Pastor be a Gifted Theologian?
What do you think the relationship is between depth of theological understanding and being a good pastor? Is it a straight one to one correlation? Other things being equal, a better theological understanding will make a better church leader? Once you are over a certain threshold of theological understanding does it then become.more about preaching ability, love for people, management skills etc? I think I default to thinking that there is a very strong correspondence (as the people whose books have greatly helped me have all been deep thinkers), but the more I think about it the more this seems wrong (most local church leaders are not going to have the time or money to train to a very deep level).
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