April 12, 2018 Show with Dr. James M. Renihan on “What Does the Bible Teach About Ministerial Training?”

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I'm delighted to have back on the program a returning guest, Dr. James M. Renahan, who is President and Professor of Historical Theology at the new IRBS Theological Seminary in Mansfield, Texas, which will be launching its first semester, God willing, this September.

And today we are going to be discussing what does the Bible teach about ministerial training? So if you know of anybody that has a desire to be a minister, you know of people who are ready pastors, well call them up, send them an email, send them a text, tell them to tune in to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio anywhere in the world at ironsharpensironradio .com and if it's impossible for them to listen live, make sure you tell them about the program that they can listen to tomorrow on the archived recording, which should be available after 12 noon tomorrow.

But it is my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. James M.

Renahan. Thanks Chris, it's good to talk to you again. And let me give our email address for our.

Listeners right away. If you'd like to join us on the air with a question for Dr. Renahan, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com. Please give us your first name at least, your city and state, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA.

Please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter. Let's say you disagree with your own pastor on theology or a particular doctrinal issue, or perhaps you're a pastor and you disagree with your own denomination or your congregation.

On some theological matter, we understand that you might want to remain anonymous, but other than that, please give us at least your first name, city and state, and country of residence. Well, at the outset of the program, Dr. Renahan, tell our listeners who may be unfamiliar with this exciting new project, tell us about the.

IRBS Theological Seminary in Mansfield, Texas. Great, and we will be repeating this.

Information of course, but if anybody wants more information about the IRBS Theological Seminary, all you have to do is go to their website IRBSseminary .org IRBSseminary .org, and don't forget to put two S's back-to-back in that URL since it is IRBS Seminary.

And before I take any of our listener questions, which are already popping up, let me ask a few questions of my own. Have you considered changing the name of IRBS now that it is independent from Westminster Theological Seminary?

Because a lot of people obviously, when they see that name, they're not automatically going to understand what IRBS stands for. Yeah,.

Because we wanted some people to understand, and several folks, because we've had 20 years of experience, we're viewing this as a continuation of what it would be helpful to continuity and identity. Clunky name, but people remember, you know, IRBS Seminary would be like IBM or BP, which is BP, and so IRBS Theological Seminary, that's our name.

And well, I'm sure that in time it.

Will become a household name just like IBM, at least with reformed people, at least with Calvinists it will. I'd be curious to know what a reading list would look like for an IRBS course on Baptist Covenant Theology.

Of course, there are a lot of people, both Baptists and Presbyterians, who will say that's an oxymoron, Baptist Covenant Theology, but obviously we do not believe that as Reformed Baptists. If you could give us a list, there have been a lot of minor works on the subject from various viewpoints over the past several years, but there is no single major work that authoritatively.

Defines our position. Yeah, that wouldn't be my call, a reading list. But I assume Nehemiah Cox is a primary source. Wow. Now Sam, if I'm not mistaken, didn't he also write a book on the impassibility of God?

Two of them, yeah. He did God Without Passions, A Reader, and then God Without Passions. Great. I'm going to take one of our listener.

Calls before I continue on with some more questions of my own. This is a bit off-topic, but I figure I'll have this one asked as early as possible so that we can continue on sticking to the major theme here.

If anybody else has questions, try to keep them to something in regard to the training of those in the ministry. But this does apply, since this is a unique aspect of Reformed Baptist theology, as opposed to Baptists of other persuasions, I think.

We have Jeremy in Arlington, Texas, who says, Can Dr. Renahan develop why the Christian Sabbath is to be on Sunday? I know that it is implicit in the New Testament, but I've heard some pushback from people in my church that it doesn't really matter what day, due to Romans chapter 14, verses 5 through 6.

I am a Sabbatarian, but I want to be prepared to defend that position more. Now, obviously, you would be giving us a summary, because that could be a lengthy discussion. In fact, Jeremy, if you send me an email later, I can get you the audio for a two-day debate that I aired on the old Iron Sharpens Iron radio program broadcasting out of New York, between one of the faculty members of IRBS Theological Seminary, Sam Waldron, and a Seventh-day Baptist.

They debated this issue on this program, the old program, which is not on the new website. We haven't gotten all the old programs archived on a new website yet. But if you email me, I'll get you that very lengthy discussion on this.

But Dr. Renahan, do.

You have anything to say about it? Sure. Hi, Jeremy. Thanks for asking the question. You see a pattern that begins right at the Resurrect Church meeting together. And then it's eight days later, and he presents himself, the 8th of Pentecost, 50 days, Ashkenazi, and the con came together.

It's interesting that Paul doesn't meet with the Church on any other day. He waits until the Sunday to meet together. But I think that this between means for people of God, you know, in Exodus, and in the fourth commandment, there's a difference between them.

And the writer to the Hebrews, the Old Testament and the Exodus are to the Hebrews, cataphalsis. We're gonna go to an early break.

Because I want Dr. Renahan to hang up and call a different phone line for our interview. Because we do have a little bit of a static issue, and I think that if we use a different phone line, it will be cleared up.

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Well I believe we are now back with Dr. Runahan, correct? Yes, and you're much, you're sounding much better, there's no static on this line. Yeah, we have to remember next time we have you on to use this different line because for some reason we were having over-modulation on the on the original one.

Can you tell us what a theological seminary is? That may sound like a basic question but some people might actually.

Have misunderstandings about that. Yeah, you know, a lot of people who, a theological seminary is a school and it supports providing academic, most church, it has to always be an entity that is strictly for...

And why is ministerial training important?

Some people would say that if we really believe in the perspicuity of scriptures, that the scriptures are intended by God, that they are easily understood, that special training should not be all that important or necessary for somebody going.

Into the ministry. How do you respond to that? Yeah, that's that the Bible itself, in the next generation of men, who themselves will be able to train others on and on and on and on. And in the context, it's very clearly the Gospel that Paul is thinking of there, that the need to understand and to spread the Gospel.

Now there's a whole lot more, that's the first, but beyond that is the most important demean any other... Everything else that we do, whatever it is, whether we work in a machine, has to do with this life.

But pastoral ministry has to do with teaching them and what the Gospel is, what they must know, and what they must believe in order to receive the forgiveness of sins and to enjoy the blessing of eternal life.

And I think too often people treat that that anyone can do. We're converted men, we need the power of the Holy Spirit, we need dependence on the scriptures, but we need to be thoroughly... And then the third thing that I've removed from our societies are set to understand and communicate with the individuals on the street or even people in church.

My friends, if you go to a cardiologist, you want him to know, give a prognosis. I think that there's an analogy from that to pastoral ministry. We don't want somebody coming to us because we want them to know thoroughly what the Bible says and be able to minister that to people of all sorts, of different ages, with different backgrounds, with different troubles and problems that they bring with them of life.

You know, you begin to think about all of those hundred people have different challenges. To think that without the right kind of preparation, you... problems is really an overestimation of your own abilities.

And the seminary helps men to be able to face those challenges to people in all... Well, you know, a lot of times when this.

Issue comes up, you will have people like Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and to my knowledge, I don't think he had any formal training. And here he is known globally over a century later as the prince of preachers.

And the man's volumes of writings, the transcribed sermons that he has available to us so many years later after his departing this earth and entering into heaven, even are used in themselves, and you'll have the most brilliant of theologians using his sermons and his writings.

So how do you respond to something like that? Yeah, that's a really interesting question. All that you said about... Part of it is that he's very unusual, maybe the only person that we have seen in our lifetime who has the mental...

You know, R .C. could stand up and preach for half an hour without any notes and virtually without any long-term preparation. Spurgeon seems to have... Spurgeon spent a lot of his childhood and teen years at his grandfather's, and so in a sense, another thing that people forget is the importance of ministerial training, and he began in the Metropolitan Tabernacle at what was called the Pastor's College.

And the purpose of the Pastor's College was to train men for the ministry. So Spurgeon is an advocate of ministerial training. He's a bad example. You know, to pull up Spurgeon is to say, you're forgetting what Spurgeon was all about, because he recognized his circumstances were less than the best that they ought to have been, and that it was more beneficial...

A man named George R .R. Spurgeon was an advocate for.

People to cite. And going to the actual inerrant God-breathed word, we have the Twelve Apostles who didn't go to seminary. So how do you respond to that, which is even more of an important issue?

Yeah, well...

They went to Jesus Academy.

...of walking beside and watching the Lord for three years. That's pretty good preparation. They may have been...

Yeah, and could one rightly respond to that argument that it is interesting that the Apostle Paul wrote most of the New Testament, and he was certainly a very educated man. He was a Pharisee.

Yeah, in fact, I would like to at some point.

Yeah, well, perhaps we can have a full program on that. What should a seminary teach and provide to its students, first and foremost?

Learning that is presented, and we really believe, loves Christ. The details need to be in a climate where... And so, you know, learning sometimes can be dry, and learning wonder. I think you had recently, Steve Martin, in fact, and we asked Steve to be our Dean of Student Calvinism.

Calvinism that genuinely... And we've asked Steve to, from the beginning, a climate in which our classes of each of the men... I think that's where you begin. It's surprising that there are a lot of schools today that are diminishing the role of the Greek and Hebrew languages.

And it's my beloved friend, Ron Baines, who's now with Christ, used to say, if a pastor is not able to work, then he and his people are one step removed from the writings of the Bible themselves. And Ron was right.

And so we believe that it's... And that education in the languages use them in reading and understanding and interpreting the Bible for God's people and for the lost that you preach the gospel to. Sound exposition, the Hebrew Old Testament, it also ought to provide a theological training.

Men need to understand what the Bible teaches us about God, about man, about salvation, beginning to end, all of those various heads of theology. They need to know them and understand them. And understand them in a way that they see the integrated nature of.

Christian theology, how one thing influences another. By the way, was Ron Baines from England?

No, Ron was pastor up in Maine. Okay. He was one of our trustees. Oh wow. Yeah, for some reason I.

Was connecting him with some British Reformed Baptist that I saw preach in the 1990s who went home to be with the Lord, and for some reason he may have a similar name. Maybe it's Roger Baines?

I'm not sure. I don't know. But yeah, August 28th. Well, I'm sorry for your loss, but obviously.

Ron is not experiencing any remorse about this at all. No. You know, another thing that,.

And I emphasize, another thing that I learned is a formal relationship with the Church, and a variety of tasks exposes them to the real-life ministry. This can be done on a weekly basis, but have done that.

They've stayed at those churches. Other times, that opportunity to be apprenticed to a pastor has opened the door for them to go and serve by themselves in another congregation. But we really believe in this.

You know, the seminary is about academics. The seminary doesn't do visitation. It doesn't provide people in the midst of their needs. And so it needs the churches beside the churches, and it's the churches that have to provide.

We have another Texan. We have PJ from Bridge City, Texas. And PJ says, I was previously a seminary student at Grace School of Theology in Houston, Texas. I extremely disagree with their soteriology, and 90 of my papers ended up having to be rebuttals.

You can imagine this was not a very enjoyable situation in most cases. I am very reformed in my theology in doctrines of salvation, but I am also classic pre-mill. Would your school be a good fit for me, or would it be another situation where I have to write rebuttal after.

Rebuttal? Now, is that different from historic pre-millennial? I'm assuming the same, Chris.

Okay, because the confession certainly doesn't require one specific understanding.

No, that's right. PJ, it would be a great fit.

Well, thanks, PJ. And I would love to hear an update from you and see what progresses in the weeks and months to come in regard to perhaps you enrolling as a student there at IRB Theological Seminary in Mansfield, Texas.

But thank you for your question, and keep listening to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio and spreading the word in Texas and beyond. Why start a new school? Aren't there ones that exist that are sufficient?

Yeah, that's a fair... There are a lot of... In our beginning... You know, I've loved... Two of my sons are grand... I deeply appreciate different schools... The reason that we have... We believe... We believe it teaches...

My time here at Westminster, and I've seen the great beneficiaries who graduate from here, are really well-trained so that they don't have to unlearn or... That they might get in another school. There are many really fine men who teach in schools.

There are many really fine schools, but there aren't any residential accredited schools that will provide what we provide. And that's why we want to train men, because we want to give to Reformed Baptists.

Now, you've already, obviously, mentioned some.

Distinctives, but can you mention any other distinctives of IRB Theological Seminary that makes you stand out, even amongst other Reformed Baptist institutions of higher learning?

Having access... Likewise, I've used the... But we will be applying for accreditation, and we have determined from the beginning that we will meet all the size as we move in. I can think of five. We want to...

And we've already talked about this in a sense. We want to be confessional. We want the confession of faith. We want people to be able to look at... We know what they believe. So we want covenantal. Covenant theology will be a central part of our curriculum.

Now, I told you before, I won't be the one teaching the class in covenant theology, but covenant theology will be present throughout our form. And so, like, when P .J. asked this question... Non-negotiable.

Another thing is the church, and I guess I'm picking up on what I'm... Church is central. We have to view ourselves as cultivating relationships with churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and we already have established relationships with churches around the country, and even around the world.

People would like, in various places in the world, they'd like our students to come for internships. And so we... Fourth thing I would say is the Bible. Central. And I'm going in order of importance. The Bible needs to be at the center.

And that... We want that to be our identity, and we want them to graduate with that kind of... For the Bible. And then the last distinct... It's easy to say, but it's really our desire. And that's, like I said, that's not a distinctive that separates us from anybody else, because I hope everybody else has that desire.

But we need to state it. We need to say, we want the Lord Jesus Christ to proclaim Him, His majesty and His glory extolled among all of our students. So those...

Yes, and obviously there are multitudes of seminaries and schools that may make a claim like that, that unlike IRB as theological seminary, are really nowhere on the same planet as biblical Christianity or even the Christ of the Scripture.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, there are schools that do it well.

Well, I am going to go to our midway break right now, and when I return from the break, I would like you to introduce our listeners to some of your faculty members by giving us a brief bio sketch of as many as you care to mention.

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