My friend and colleague Dr. Don Sweeting, former President of Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando and now President of Colorado Christian University, recently wrote an important and timely article called The Pastoral Debt Crisis. It is a topic that should concern all church members. The load of educational debt is having an impact of seminarians, seminaries and future ministries (and thus the churches). 1. Students are bringing historically high undergraduate debt (north of $30,000) to seminary with them, and then are going further into debt…Pastors need to know more, not less, for less not more
My friend and colleague Dr. Don Sweeting, former President of Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando and now President of Colorado Christian University, recently wrote an important and timely article called The Pastoral Debt Crisis. It is a topic that should concern all church members. The load of educational debt is having an impact of seminarians, seminaries and future ministries (and thus the churches). 1. Students are bringing historically high undergraduate debt (north of $30,000) to seminary with them, and then are going further into debt…