First, on one level, I agreed with it. I have served on a presbytery s Committee on Preparation for Ministry for 6 years, and I have seen a number of the problems with students raised in the article. These persons often do not have a real sense of the church, or even a real sense of Reformed theology.
Many persons lack a basic level of maturity and a basic level of reading and writing skills as well.
Others do not care for their physical self, the temple of God s spirit, in a good way. These students are often directed toward other vocations, such as banking, engineering, law, or medicine. As I understand it, a call is three-fold. It s great to study various types of theology, for example, but students must know the basics first and well. And yet, even as I agreed with the article, I found myself thinking back to the Bible and to God s call to the people there.