I look back on my pastoral ministry classes in college three decades later, and the numerous preaching seminars required of ministerial students there at Oklahoma Baptist University. Yes, I did learn a few things, but I remember precious little of it. Rather, I learned most from simply watching men who knew how to deliver.

While I might claim to get rave reviews from those who sit under my teaching and preaching, I have no way to prove that. But I find in the long run such training is something you use until you find your own way. Nowadays, I use precious little of the “prep” training because my brain doesn’t work that way. The very best teachers and preachers break a lot of rules, because they are delivering themselves, not simply a message.

They basically admit as much. As I understand it, Covenant’s curriculum gives you a framework in the early courses and then aims to help you vary from it in later courses. It’s not unlike how one does with almost anything similar, I suppose — writing, for example— you learn the rules so you can appreciate what it means when you break them.

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