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Training Shepherds Here, There, and Everywhere

Digital learning expands the net of students at RPTS

  — | Features, Agency Features, Seminary | June 02, 2014

The seminary’s gospel-centered lessons are traveling to distant corners of the earth.
Joel Wood is pastor of Sterling, Kan., RPC and recently received his doctor of ministry degree at RPTS.


Paul (name changed for security purposes) is ready for the seminary lecture, Introduction to Reformed Theology. Neatly arrayed around him are his textbooks, Bible, notes, and computer. Professor John Tweeddale begins the class with prayer, not knowing that Paul is participating remotely from a country that frequently persecutes Christians. Another group of students gather at the Springs Reformed Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs, Colo. They also arrange their materials as Pastor Dave Reese makes the final connections to join the Introduction to Biblical Counseling course streamed live from the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (RPTS) in Pittsburgh.

Matthew 28:19-20 is being played out in a different form these days. Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of ...