A Missional Seminary
From the book Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America…
“Seminaries are seeking to reorient their training philosophies to equip more adequately leaders today…This shaping would mean the redesign of theological education. The learning process would be shaped by covenants and an intentional missional thrust. The first year of such an education might be a year for initiates who are discerning whether God is calling them to the vocation of missional leadership. Classrooms would become communities, and the initiates would live in these communities shaped by ecclesial practices and disciplines of accountability. The remaining years of preparation would involve the initiate in a close covenant relationship between the theological training school and an actual missional community. Together they would initiate leaders-in-formation into the ways of God’s sent people. The actual learning of spiritual disciplines and spiritual direction would need to shape all the work of the gathered community that made up the school.”
Sounds good to me. I wonder, practically speaking, what that kind of school would be like, though?
