Welcome to After The Fact, a knowing faith many episode where we look to take a big question

and address it in just a few minutes. These episodes are sponsored by the Southern

Baptist Theological Seminary. Are you wondering if seminary is right for you? Southern has actually

created a tool to help you explore that question. You can check it out at sbts.edu-explore.

Now, typically the questions we consider will line up with our larger topic for the season,

and we've had some incredible guests on After The Fact this season. But today I wanted to step

away from Romans to ask a question that JT and I get all the time. Is seminary right for me?

And to do that, I'm joined by my friend and co-host of Knowing Faith, the author of Deep Recipleship,

and a man well acquainted with the benefits of a strong seminary education. The good doctor,

JT English. Dr. English, welcome to After The Fact. Thanks for joining us.

Hey, man, I'm trying to think, is this, I've done an After The Fact before I think, haven't I?

We weigh in a galaxy far away. Did I mess it up? I'm glad to be back with you.

Well, I'm glad to have you back. And this is a question that you and I get through Instagram

messages on social media all the time. People will listen to Knowing Faith. They're like, I love

this stuff. We have made it a big point to push discipleship in the life of the local church,

but we both know there are some unique opportunities that seminary forwards me. Are listeners pick

up on this? And they ask us, hey, is seminary right for me? So if there's a listener out there,

maybe they've never considered seminary, but this podcast has made them think, I want more of this.

Maybe they're actively considering it and wondering, how do I know or not? How do you typically answer

that question? Is seminary right for me? That's a really important question. And as you know,

I mean, I loved my time in seminary. I had a great experience at both institutions that I was

able to attend and graduate from. I want to start this conversation because I'm like the discipleship

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