VISION
The Seminary’s highest priority is to equip pastors in our Master of Divinity program. We also offer two other non-divinity study programs in Christian studies—at the Master’s and Certificate levels—to provide qualified individuals with deeper biblical knowledge, theological insights, and ecclesiastical wisdom for service to Christ and his Kingdom and all their varied callings. We also make low- to no-cost Church Enrichment courses available to congregations to discover best practices in leadership training, church management, evangelism, church planting, leadership transitions, counseling, and more.
Our programs assist churches in equipping pastors and Christian leaders, so they will be rooted in and supportive of the work of ministry at the local church and denominational levels. The Seminary’s courses and programs are an academic component to this ecclesiocentric education of pastors. While we appreciate the value of graduate (post-baccalaureate level) programs and advanced theological research and regularly benefit from them, the Seminary is not, at heart, a traditional graduate school or research institution. Students who are admitted to the Seminary should be capable of completing studies at the graduate level of academic or intellectual difficulty. However, the Seminary is much more than a “graduate school” of theology. Reformed Evangelical Seminary requires students to be mentored by local pastors and to apply their learning and training in service to the ministries at their home congregations.
The Seminary is blessed to stand on the shoulders of our Protestant forefathers. We are grateful to God for their recovery of much that had been lost from the Scriptures and the early Church. Their embrace of the “Five Solas” (sola Scriptura, solus Christus, sola fide, sola gratia, and soli Deo gloria) and their passion to continually grow in theological wisdom and spiritual maturity, in the spirit of semper reformanda, is a commitment we aspire to keep. Our goal is to train pastors and church leaders in the spirit of this Reformed heritage through
Biblical study that draws upon the Reformers’ passion for Biblical truth, while embraces the richness of pre-modern exegesis and recognizes the advances in biblical study seen in recent decades.
Systematic theology fed by the very finest theological reflection from the Early Church, the Middle Ages, the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, and up to the present day.
Worship that emphasizes preaching the whole counsel of God, learning from the greatest preachers of the Early Church and the Reformation era, while also drawing on the importance of liturgy in renewing the people of God for cruciform lives of faithful service.
Pastoral Counselling that reflects the Bible’s concern for the right formation of the whole person and brings pastoral care back into the sphere God intended—the church—while recognizing the new and distinctive challenges of the modern world, yet depending on the ordinary means of grace (Word and Sacraments) that God has used throughout history to strengthen and to equip His people.
Ethical reflection that draws on all of Scripture, together with the best historical and contemporary ethical reflections and methods, and
Mission that reflects the Reformational commitment to long-term cultural transformation, within an optimistic Scriptural vision for the growth of the kingdom of Christ to the ends of the earth.