LRBS - Features

Features of the Course

• The LRBS provides an intensive reading course using the finest authors. To complement the reading course, seminarians attend 44 hours of tutorial seminars every academic year (held on eight Saturdays of each year). The full Theology and Pastoral Studies Course extends to four years.
• The LRBS does not take seminarians away from their service for the Lord or their churches.
• The LRBS course is pursued by a large proportion of serving pastors, the remainder being men engaged in regular preaching or local church responsibility.
• The LRBS provides the best kind of training for graduates for whom further whole-time class-work is neither possible or appropriate. The special usefulness of this course to graduates is seen from the fact that since 1975 most course members have been graduates and many have held doctoral or masters degrees. Nevertheless no specific qualifications for entrance are required as each applicant is considered on the merits of his past Christian service experience, the office he holds, and his church's recommendation.
• The LRBS is distinctively reformed and baptistic in its teaching of doctrine, church government and polity.
• The LRBS holds to and teaches the exegetical and hermeneutical procedures of the reformed tradition as opposed to the neo-humanistic approach so widely accepted even by evangelicals today.
• The LRBS gives the fullest attention to practical organisation and evangelistic methods for church growth.
• The LRBS teaches that the modern charismatic movement does not fulfil the biblical pattern, character and purpose of the divine gifts of prophecy, healing and tongues, and that the ecumenical movement is anticipated in Scripture and condemned as anti-Christian.
• The LRBS part-time course is the best-attended course of its kind in the UK and has helped train many pastors now engaged in the ministry of the Word.