Welcome to this episode of Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge.

Each week I offer 15-20 minute answers to tough theological and pastoral questions.

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And for those who don't know, our mission at Relearn.org is to educate and equip ordinary Christians

to plant biblical, confessional, and mission house churches.

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Alright, so what's your perspective on seminary?

Lots of Christians argue that seminary is a waste of time and a distraction from the

real kingdom work that God has before them. They say that nobody in the Bible had a degree

and nowhere in the Bible requires a degree. So why have we built this system that implies that it

does? Ultimately, the question is, is seminary biblical or is it a distraction in the church?

So we're going to be discussing all of this and more, but before we dive into that,

I just want to take just a minute to make two quick announcements.

The first is, you know that our core ministry at Relearn.org is educating and equipping folks

to find and plant biblical house churches, but a healthy church is simply only healthy church

members, meaning that if you don't have healthy church members, you can't have a healthy church.

And for that reason, we developed a program for marriages at ultimatemarriage.com

and a program for quitting pornography at standinvictory.org.

And I want to talk about this just for a second. Did you guys know that six out of ten

self-identified Christian men look at pornography at least two times per month?

Did you know that four out of ten self-identified Christian women look at pornography at least

once per month? Pornography, you know, use is really attached to all types of church-related

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