The founders of Redeemer Seminary share a strong conviction that pastoring God’s precious flock involves more than an academic exercise. While we do not minimize the intellectual training needed for ministry in the least, we believe that future church leaders need a critical balance of intellectual understanding, practical ministry skills, and social intelligence, i.e., how to interact with, care for, and relate to God’s flock on an everyday basis as their shepherd.

 

Many seminaries only provide the intellectual understanding, causing an imbalanced emphasis on academics to the exclusion of practical experience and relational awareness. Sadly, the result can be an overemphasis on biblical ‘data dumps’ rather than preaching that relates biblical truth to the people entrusted to the pastor’s care. The students of Redeemer Seminary will not only be trained in the Bible, as well as issues of theology and apologetics, but they will also be exposed to many of the pastors, staff, and ministries of Redeemer Bible Church and they will become more sensitive to the actual people God wants shepherded after His own heart (Jer. 3:15).