Dr Paul Allen

When students ask for recommended books before entering Bible College, I usually have Paul Tripp’s Dangerous Calling at the top of my list. Tripp points out many of the common heart problems related to pastoral ministry. But this book isn’t just for students. I think every professional Bible lecturer should read it too. Tripp writes out of both professorial and pastoral experience. Strive to be a professor who is concerned about heart application as much as theological information. Tripp exhorts readers to make the classroom more pastoral. Here’s a word to all professors: I am convinced that the crisis of pastoral culture often begins in the Bible College class. It begins with a distant, impersonal, information-based handling of the Word of God. It begins with pastors who, in their Bible College years, became quite comfortable with holding God’s Word distant from their own hearts. It begins with classrooms that are academic without being pastoral. It begins with brains becom