Seven Things They Don't Teach You in Seminary

by John Killinger

John Killinger, author of Ten Things I Learned Wrong from a Conservative Church, offers this insightful, very honest, and even sometimes humorous look at the most important things all seminarians need to know-and aren't learning in seminary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082452392X
• ISBN13: 9780824523923
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Pastors, you'll think he's read your mind!

Killinger tells it like it is. As I read, I thought "truth, truth, truth". At times I thought "You mean someone besides me experienced that?" At other times I laughed out loud. This is an experienced pastor who takes the high road as he shares the struggles of being a pastor. Pastors would be better off if we could share as openly as Killinger, maintain a Christlike bearing, and not judge one another for being so brutally honest. Laypeople need to read this to relate better to their pastors.

An absolute "must-read" for anyone contemplating any type of church career or service.

Theologist, churchman and former seminary professor John Killinger presents Seven Things They Don't Teach You In Seminary, a no-nonsense guide to the practical, real-world truths that every prospective minister should know - truths that are driven home through sometimes bitter experience. Among the important real-world lessons that Seven Things They Don't Teach You In Seminary expounds are "Churches Are Really Institutions, Not Centers of Spirituality", "Every Successful Minister Is Drowning in a Sea of Minutiae", "There Is a Meanness in Some Church Members that Is Simply Incredible", and "The Calling to Be a Minister Transcends All the Problems that Being a Minister Entails". An absolute "must-read" for anyone contemplating any type of church career or service.