O.K. Now that you have this fine education,

My case is different, you see, from Rhet's.

I am the guilty one I think because I for selfish reasons in my past turned to public school teaching instead of ministry or theological instruction. That drove a wedge between me and God's will as I see it.

Then, when I returned to God around 1990 after many years of feeling apart and after restarting my theological training, while still teaching school, finishing it , and looking in mirror, I found I had grown old : I had not stayed the course , I had not finished the race ; I had not kept the Faith, and the wrinkles on my face were from selfishness not from service.

So I am determined to walk as far as I can for as long as I can on a higher path than I did before. While I'm ashamed to offer the LORD only what's left of me, that's all I have left to give.

 

My two cents: I think the really wonderful thing is that right now you have an awful lot to give and now you really want to give.

 

Tom

Thanks. I hope to give freely.

 

PO Bill

Thanks for the encouragement. I see you're in the NW. I'm in Salem, Or.

One nice feature of old age is that I now live on SS and teacher retirement. So, I CAN GIVE my time gratuitously.

At this point my project is to put my dissertation on Christology (wherein I express my own particular opinions) in a more popular and distilled form and give it freely online or inexpensively bound.

Hopefully I can also find a little Bible college or seminary where I can "donate myself" freely either by DL or in person if the school is not too far away.

And in agreement , I can, as you say, look for any opportunity to serve in any capacity as it is better to be even a gatekeeper in the House of the Lord than to be a prince outside of it.

Bill

 

There is a new Seminary in Salem, no buildings, meeting in churches, started by Earl Radamacher (that used to be pres of Western Baptist Sem. in Portland.) and not sure who else.

Don't know if they have needs but might since they haven't been going all that long. Derickson at Western is helping with it as well as Wayne House, as pres.

http://www.otsweb.org/

Just ran across them the other day on the net.

 

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Thanks! I'll look into it. Derickson was an informal reader of my dissertation. While I went to Western Seminary (90-94) , where Radmacher taught, he had already retired.

Bill

 

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Bill

I'd be very happy to contribute time to a school as you describe.

I am a Conservative Baptist.

Bill Grover

 

You might email or phone the seminary as I don't think they have an office. The address on the website is in a residential area and the address on their doctrinal statement is a po box place from what I know.

Thought might save you some running around

 

I read Derickson's study on theology a couple of years ago. It is on the Master Christian Library cd.I like to read on my computer so I can adjust the print size.
Sounds like you guys are getting together pretty good.

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sure it was not Erickson?

Gary Derickson seems to be a fine Christian. He is twice published in the area of my dissertation which concerns the question of a hierachical relationship within the immanent Trinity. He was good enough to advise me after reading each chap of the dissertation. I wanted someone as Gary to do that as the work was on the views of American thought about Trinal relationships and the Committee was composed only of reps from three South African universities.



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This is wonderful.Dr. Bob is semi-retired I think and he has quite a background, you might think about talking to him and throwing around a few ideas.

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Bill, a question that I have is if there is a genuine need for yet another opportunity for an online or distance learning school. There are quite a few colleges and seminaries offering DL studies as part or the whole of their curricula already you know. Bob, I think, is a DMin grad of one of these.

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I'm independant,fundamental(in the R.A.Torrey sense) and Baptist.I am KJV preferred somewhat but I really like the ESV and am waiting for a good ESV study Bible before I get another one.I also use the NIV and NASB.I am pre-trib,pre-mill,saved by grace,security of the believer type.I think dispensational teachings are useful for Biblical interpretation but would,nt call myself a dyed in the wool dispensationalist.

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You sound much like me. I grew up on RA Torrey. I used Torrey's book on doctrine , and The Fundamentals he edited , in my 2004 dissertation, but only briefly to establish that Fundamentalism, as these works exemplify, does not require the tenets of God the Son's eternal begetting or His eternal relational subordination.

I was converted in La Haye's church in San Diego , which was Independent Baptist in '59. I am premill but, as yet, I hold off on unquestionably affirming pretrib as I have not satisfied myself yet on that (despite the old daye's of La Haye's preaching on it )! I don't deny it, I just am biding my time while chewing over some portions in Mt and Thess. Probably I will not figure it out until the Rapture !

As I understand it a pretrib position is not a requisite for the CB Association of the NW , but it seems to be in the teaching statement of some CB schools as Western Seminary.

Bill Grover

 

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Thanks again. I did speak with House today, and we plan to meet next month.

Bill