Shining BRITE

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Sean Morris checks in. He’s the academic dean of BRITE: the Blue Ridge Institute for Theological Education. How valuable is having a biblical institute in your backyard when you can’t leave everything behind to pursue a traditional seminary education elsewhere? Sean discusses the cooperative effort of local churches, mentorship versus traditional seminary model, the advantages of in-classroom education, and more. From pastors to lay men and women leading small groups and bible studies, BRITE is for everyone!Show Notes Blue Ridge Institute for Theological Education Historic Church DocumentsThanks to our friends at IVP Academic, we’re giving away copies of A Little Book for New Theologians, by Kelly Kapic. Sign up, and you might win one!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.9	Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.7	This is Amy Bird, and I'm here with my co-host, Todd Pruitt, and Carl Truman.
0:52.0	And today we are excited to interview Sean Morris. He is Associate Minister of
0:58.2	Westminster Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Virginia. And he's also the academic dean of the Blue Ridge
1:04.8	Institute of Theological Education, or Bright, for short. And that's what we want to talk to him about today. How are you doing,
1:12.6	Sean? I'm doing really well, Amy. Thanks so much for having me on. Yeah. Could you tell us a little
1:18.6	bit about Bright and just its whole Genesis how it was established? Yeah, be glad to. Well,
1:25.2	Bright began, I would say, in the fall of 2016 or so as a result of a number of prayer meetings, actually, amongst a number of different pastors and church leaders here in the Roanoke Valley.
1:41.1	And it became obvious to us in the course of those prayer meetings and
1:44.8	conversations we were having with one another and with our church members that we needed to do
1:50.5	a better job of training up fellow workers in the area, fellow educators, Christian educators,
1:59.1	church officers, and ministry leaders and church leaders,
2:02.7	and that there wasn't really an opportunity short of moving out of the area, uprooting,
2:07.8	and going off to a traditional seminary context. There wasn't really much of an option for folks
2:12.6	who were craving or desiring deeper biblical and theological training in order to serve their churches better.
2:18.7	And that sort of lack in our area really began to burden us.
2:22.3	Now, the roots of what we now call Bright actually go back to the 1970s.
2:26.4	There was a predecessor organization in Roanoke called the Roanoke Institute for Biblical Studies, or Ribs for short.
2:36.4	Now, Ribs had in view more so training pastors, providing continuing education for pastors, and so that's what that was back in the
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