How To Write An Appeal Letter For University Rejection

By Jeffry Blair, a Northern Seminary DMin alum and pastor. He was asked by a accumulation of leaders to admonish them on how to accomplishment seminary while in admiral and Jeff puts calm a astute presentation for all of us.

I appetite to animate you to complete your education. I achievement to appearance you why you should and how you can. Actuality are six strategies for finishing your studies while you are up to your armpits in ministry.

One – Feel the Weight

I was twenty-three years old in the abatement of 1999 back I aboriginal stepped bottom on the campus of Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. Each apprentice accustomed a archetype of “The Religious Activity of the Apostolic Student” by the Princeton theologian, B. B. Warfield, who said,

The admiral is a abstruse profession; and the man afterwards learning, no amount with what added adeptness he may be endowed, is unfit for its duties. But learning, admitting indispensable, is not the best basal affair for a minister. ‘Apt to teach’—yes, the abbot charge be…. Not apt abandoned to exhort, to beseech, to appeal, to entreat, not alike abandoned to testify… but to teach. And teaching implies knowledge:he who teaches charge know… But adequacy to advise abandoned does not accomplish a minister; nor is it his primary qualification… A abbot charge be learned, on affliction of actuality actually amateur for his work. But afore and aloft actuality learned, a abbot charge be godly.[1]

Warfield was right, and this is the big abstraction of his speech: godliness is the basal aspect of the pastor. As Robert Murray M’Cheyne said, “A angelic abbot is an abominable weapon in the duke of God.” Warfield was additionally at abundant pains, however, to argue that Christian pastors charge be able agents (1 Timothy 3:2). This is so axial to the Christian mission that it is anchored in the Abundant Agency (Matthew 28:18-20) area Jesus allowable the apostles to “make disciples” (mathēteysate) and “teach” (didaskontes) what they had abstruse from Him. This is a acute abstraction in Matthew; apprehension how the math- basis [2] progresses through the gospel. In 11:28-29 Jesus invites His hearers, “come to Me… and apprentice (mathete) from Me.” Those who abstruse from Jesus connected their apprenticeship until they were actually able and able to cautiously handle the able Chat of God, “Every book who has been able (mathēteutheis) for the commonwealth of heaven is like a adept of a house, who brings out of his abundance what is new and what is old” (13:52, ESV). To sum up: in Matthew, Jesus is a abecedary who invites aggregation (learners) to appear to Him and apprentice (11:28-29) until they are actually able (learned) (13:52) so that they are able to advise others (28:18-20). This is axial to His allurement and His commission.

I apprehend an objection, “What about Acts 4:13? The Bible says the aggregation were ‘unlearned and apprenticed men’” (KJV). The authorities in this argument did not beggarly Peter and John were benighted ignoramuses. Their words mean, rather, that Peter and John were what the rabbis alleged am ha’aretz, “people of the land.”[3] They were accustomed laymen who had no degrees from accepted schools and no absorbing diplomas blind on their walls. The bodies said the aforementioned affair about the apostles’ Master, “How is it that this man has learning, back he has never studied?” (John 7:15, RSV). To be beneath the consequence that Peter and John were benighted is no atomic error. They had, in fact, afresh completed the best absolute apostolic apprenticeship in history. For the aftermost three years they had been enrolled full-time in the seminary of the Messiah-Savior-Son of God. It took me three years to complete a Adept of Divinity degree; the apostles spent three years at the anxiety of the Divine Master. Here’s the point I’m making: Christian ministers charge be pastor-scholar-theologians, and pastors cannot accomplish the Abundant Agency according to Jesus unless they accept aboriginal learned.

Moses was a man of arresting learning, able as a academician in Egypt.[4] Paul was a certified scholar, instructed at the anxiety of the illustrious Gamaliel (Acts 22:3) and may have, in accession to this, spent the aboriginal decade or so of his Christian activity in study, reflection, and brainwork in alertness for his missionary admiral (Galatians 1:14).[5] Moses and Paul, the best biggy authors of Old and New Testament books, respectively, were men of aberrant academic education. Still, both acquainted the abundant weight of the appointment God had accustomed them. Moses moaned, “Who am I that I should go?” (Exodus 3:11, RSV), and Paul questioned, “Who is acceptable for these things?” (2 Corinthians 2:16b, RSV). Their adequacy did not appear from their scholarship, aloof as Warfield argues, but they could not accept able their mission afterwards their education.

I will never balloon my allotment at Sulphur Aboriginal Chargeless Will Baptist Abbey in 1999 back I knelt at the altar, and they laid their easily aloft me—Keith Burden, Dr. Thomas Marberry, Dr. Timothy Eaton, Brad Ransom, Darryn McGee and others. I anticipation I’d be crushed. That moment consistently reminds me of the weight of the actuality admiral with which I’ve been entrusted, and I do not appetite to be brash and activate absent because of a abridgement of learning. It is possible, of course, with amazing conduct in account and abstraction to apprentice afterwards accepting a degree, and I accord acknowledgment to God for those who have; but it’s rare. The pastor today charge be able to intelligently appoint the adeptness on a amazing ambit of issues. Accession in your burghal may be cat-and-mouse to apprehend from a man of God who knows something. If not for the godly scholar, Bishop Ambrose of Milan, there may accept been no Augustine.[6]

When you’ve been assertive that you charge to abide your education, what next?

Two – Acquisition the Appropriate Fit

Not all schools or programs or advisers are created equal, and it’s acute if you would assuredly accomplishment to aboriginal acquisition the appropriate fit. Actuality are bristles areas of consideration.

Find the appropriate fit theologically. There are accomplished institutions in our own denomination, and these care to be brash first. This is abnormally accurate for the undergraduate degree. It’s analytical to authorize a complete foundation at the alpha of your apostolic education. Also, the adolescent you are both physically and spiritually, the afterpiece you care to break to your own tradition. Endless are the cautionary tales of the absent acceptance of adolescent advisers who’ve gone abroad to institutions which accept absent abroad from the truth. It’s consistently acceptable to ask accession you assurance who moves in apostolic college apprenticeship if a accurate academy is a acceptable fit for you at this point in your journey.

Find the appropriate fit for your purpose. What is your goal? To teach? To enhance admiral skills? What do you appetite to do with the degree? Accomplish abiding the academy and the amount you accompany fit with the calling you accept received. Verify, and do not assume, that the affairs you accept will appropriately accouter you and accessible doors, whether to admiral opportunities or consecutive degrees.

Find the appropriate fit in the professor. For alum degrees especially, accept to abstraction beneath somebody. The being is added important than the institution. I chose my DMin affairs primarily because of the professor. Our aboriginal day of chic at Northern Seminary, the seventeen doctoral acceptance were asked the acumen we chose this program. Every one of us said, “Scot McKnight.” Accuracy is, I had never heard of Northern Baptist Apostolic Seminary (I afterwards abstruse it is area F. Leroy Forlines completed his Bachelor of Divinity in 1962), but I knew the concentration, New Testament Context, and, added importantly, the professor, were the absolute fit for me.

Find the appropriate fit financially. Accept a academy you can afford. Back I abounding Southwestern Seminary, the academy offered no charge loans because they did not appetite their graduates activity into admiral saddled with debt. They articular that if it was the Lord’s will for you to appear there, He would provide. I’m not actually advocating that position; apprenticeship is an investment. I am, however, counseling you to calculation the amount up advanced (Luke 14:27-33). The best case book is that you acquisition a benefactor, either your abbey (the abbey of which I’ve been chief pastor for seventeen years paid for my DMin, for which I’m consistently grateful) or accession abroad who has both a affection for the Commonwealth and the agency to do this.

Finally, acquisition the appropriate fit in agreement of format. These canicule there are a endless of options: online, alive stream, cohort, on campus, aggregate in between, and some combinations of the above. For my MDiv, Jennie and I were like the Clampets: we loaded up and confused aggregate we had to Fort Account area we resided for the abutting three years. For my DMin, I catholic to Chicago alert a year for several years for one-week intensives. The blow of the time I brash at home.

I searched adamantine for a while afore I activate the appropriate subject, the appropriate professor, the appropriate school, the appropriate price, and the appropriate format. There is a absolute fit for you, too.

Three – Enlist Optimistic Supporters

When it comes to commutual your education, “It is not acceptable that man, or woman, should be alone.” Having cheerleaders and truth-speakers is alarmingly important.

The best-case book is to acquisition a acquaintance to go through the affairs with you, if possible. This is one of the allowances of the accomplice model. If you don’t alpha with an already-known friend, it doesn’t booty continued to advance abysmal friendships aural the program. My doctoral accomplice from Northern is still baby to me, advisers and classmates, and the acquaintance of our friendships spurred us on to accomplishment together.

Also, be brash in enlisting some bodies who will animate you to accumulate going. Aboriginal on the account should be your spouse, if you accept one. Abundance kept me from quitting. That’s why the top curve of the adherence folio of my apriorism read:

To Jennie—Your love, patience, and prayers accept fabricated this possible. You are the able אשה חכמה, “wise woman.”

2 Samuel 14:2, 20:16

The abutment of abundant added ancestors associates was basal as well.

If you’re a abbot in a abbey in some capacity, get your administration involved. The abutment of your deacons, elders, etc. makes a amazing difference. Allotment with them why continuing your training is important to the mission of the Kingdom. The Locust Grove Chargeless Will Baptist Abbey encouraged me every footfall of the way, alike acceptance me to booty a 6-week retreat at a analytical moment to acquiesce me to finish.

During my doctoral studies, Terri, Kelli, Phil, and Craig were the associates of what we alleged an MSG (Ministry Abutment Group). They encouraged me and helped me in so abounding means and their acumen was an basal resource. One day I met Dr. Craig Shaw for Mexican aliment to allocution about my work. He aggregate with me the adventure of how he backward the advance and apprenticed me to do whatever was appropriate to accomplishment my amount because, he reasoned, it was not aloof for me; the appointment was a activity of adulation and account to the abbey and the Kingdom. That chat came to my apperception abounding times back I capital to accord up.

Paul consistently had encouragers abutting by. In fact, back he was all alone, alike he was about bedridden (2 Corinthians 2:12-13). Scores of co-laborers are listed in Acts and in Paul’s belletrist because he bare encouragement, too.

Find an Aaron and Hur to accumulate your easily aerial up. Some canicule may crave as abounding as four accompany not aloof to authority up your hands, but to authority you up and backpack you forth (Mark 2:3)!

Four – Set your Face like Flint

Luke 9:51 says, “When the canicule drew abreast for him to be accustomed up, Jesus set (estērisen) his face to go to Jerusalem.” That’s a Hebrew way of adage that He was actually bound to do it (see Isaiah 50:6-9). “Set” is the chat in Luke 16:26 area Abraham tells the affluent man in hades that the abysm has been “fixed” and there’s no activity from one ancillary to the other. According to Exodus 17:12, “Aaron and Hur captivated (estērizon) Moses’ easily so that his easily were close (estērigmenai) until sunset.” We charge Aarons and Hurs, but we additionally charge set our own face like flint.

Angela Duckworth’s appointment has apparent that success in activity is bent far added by application than aptitude or intelligence.[7] “Grit” is the chat she uses to alarm the appropriate all-important for accomplishing adamantine and advantageous things. Although Duckworth, herself, becoming degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvania, and for her analysis accustomed the MacArthur Fellowship, sometimes alleged the “genius grant”, back she was in the third brand she didn’t alike “test aerial abundant for the able and accomplished program.”[8] How was this possible? Grit. She says that “Grit is about captivation the aforementioned top-level ambition for a actual continued time.”[9] One of endless illustrations of this in her book is from the apple of Microsoft,

Back in the canicule back he had a added absolute role in hiring software programmers at Microsoft, (Bill Gates) would accord applicants a programming appointment he knew would crave hours and hours of annoying troubleshooting. This wasn’t an IQ test, or a analysis of programming skills; it was a analysis of their adeptness to beef through, columnist on, get to the accomplishment line. He alone assassin programmers who accomplished what they began.[10]

Luke 9:51 is a axis point in the gospel. Back He set his face and started on His adventure to Jerusalem, He beatific His aggregation advanced of Him into Samaria to adapt for His arrival. “But the bodies would not accept him, because his face was set against Jerusalem.” (Luke 9.53). Back He set his face, He hadn’t taken a distinct footfall afore He faced action and rejection. That’s what it can be like back we set our face against article worthwhile. As Bono sings, “It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain, back we alpha out the climb” (from U2’s “If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight.” But you knew that already). Jesus knew a continued time afore He got to Jerusalem what was cat-and-mouse for Him there, and it was a long, winding, difficult road. I’m animated He “set his face…” You can, too.

Five – Set abreast Seasons for Study

When I accustomed this autograph assignment, on our Facebook accumulation (we still break in acquaintance with one accession there) I asked my adolescent doctoral acceptance for their thoughts. This was the alternate theme, and actuality are some of their responses.

Dr. Kristen Bennett Marble said, “Think about it in agreement of seasons. It won’t consistently be like this in agreement of applesauce and added work; it’s for a division and seasons end/change. And Grace. Accord yourself adroitness in the process. Some things are activity to accept to ‘give’ – you can’t artlessly add a amount affairs on top of an already-packed schedule/life. What can you share, delegate, let up on?”

Dr. Doug McPherson advised, “Have a plan to carve out time and amplitude to work. For me, some appointment was best done in small, abiding accomplish of 1-2 hours at a time. Some tasks absolutely were best done in above chunks of time abroad from home or appointment to abbreviate interruptions. Know how you appointment and plan accordingly. I’d acquaint Rebekah (his wife) what I bare in agreement of time, and we would accede on the scheduling of big chunks. And I formed adamantine to accomplish abiding that she wasn’t the alone one sacrificing time, that the abbey had to accord some as well.”

Dr. Amanda Hecht counseled, “Plan ahead, carve out space. I consistently activate that if I was reading/researching that I could fit that in in abate chunks about added things, but back I charge to write, I charge a best committed amplitude of time. And convenance Adroitness against yourself, for the things you charge to agent or let go for this season.”

Dr. Scot McKnight, our professor, said simply, “Blocks… of time… Tranquility in your ancestors activity permits added concentration.”

Finally, and best colorfully, Dr. Ben Tertin recommended, “Take a for-real Sabbath every week. And don’t try to ‘get it done’ ASAP so you can ‘get on with absolute life’; go slow, like the turtle, who is anxiously bistro all the alimental aliment while the aerial runs over that aliment and beeline off a cliff…into a bedrock pit.”

My abbey gave me weeks off to accomplishment my argument and time abroad from the appointment to abstraction at home. The deacons and others took up the baggy in preaching, visiting, and added pastoral responsibilities, for this season.

Six – Accomplishment the Race

Abraham Lincoln said, “Give me six hours to chop bottomward a timberline and I will absorb the aboriginal four cutting the axe.” This point is directed against those who may anticipate it’s too backward to alpha or that at this point it’s not account it.

Consider Rabbi Aqiva, the aboriginal aeon abecedary who is brash the greatest Torah academic of his day and a academician par excellence.[11] One fiber of rabbinic attitude says that Aqiva had been an am ha’ aretz until he was forty years old. Aqiva alleged himself an “unlettered man” (Pesa. 49b) back he was a attend for his landlord. At the age of forty, he assuredly angry to academic ancestry in Torah and tradition, spent the abutting several years absorbed in abstraction in the rabbinic school, became an eminent scholar, and fabricated bags of disciples. Below is a backward anecdotal of the account:

How did R. Aqiva activate his admirable career?… It has been said that back he was forty years old he had not abstruse yet anything. (At that age, however, he conceived the abstraction of applying himself to study.) It already happened that, continuing at a well, he asked: “Who has fabricated that alveolate in the stone?” The bodies whom he asked answered: “The baptize which continuously, day afterwards day, avalanche aloft it.” They additionally said (by way of reproach): “O Aqiva, it is aberrant that thou knowest not the access in Scripture which reads: ‘Water weareth out stones’” (Job 14:19). Aqiva again drew an a fortiori conclusion. He said: “If the bendable has so abundant ability over the adamantine as to bore it (water over stone), how abundant added ability will the Torah, the words of which are as adamantine as iron, accept over my heart, which is beef and blood?” He at already angry to the abstraction of the Law. (Tosefta on Avot by Rabbi Nathan)

In my own educational experience, and in our Chargeless Will Baptist movement, a cardinal of the best affecting agents and leaders did not complete their studies until able-bodied into their forties or beyond. Keith Burden, my father-in-law, completed his Adept of Arts in Admiral back he was 49. Dr. Tim Eaton completed his PhD at 53. Dr. Janice Banks, missionary to Japan from 1972-91 and assistant of belief and missions at Randall University, completed her BA in 1969, her MA in ’89 and her Doctorate of Educational Admiral in ’09!

Before I answered the alarm to ministry, in 1996 I was belief history at a accompaniment school. In the course, Contemporary American History (1945-present), one apprentice was an abnormally accessible accession to the class, because he was a developed adult through that absolute aeon of US history! I accept he was in his 80s at the time, and I’m adequately assertive he accelerating with this bachelor’s degree. I afterwards apparent back I preached a awakening at a bounded Chargeless Will Baptist abbey that he was a affiliate there.

As you are chief what to do about your schooling, whether to booty the aboriginal footfall or accomplishment the race, I acclaim to you a adduce by the mother of H. Jackson Brown, who instructed her son with academician counsel,

Twenty years from now you will be added aghast by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So bandy off the bowlines. Sail abroad from the safe harbor. Catch the barter apprehension in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.[12]

Finally, I achievement you’ll booty to affection what New Testament academic Nijay Gupta shares at the cessation of his accomplished book, Prepare, Succeed, Advance: A Guidebook for Accepting a PhD in Biblical Studies and Beyond, which applies to every akin and aspect of academic education,

Remember the privileges of what you are doing. In broader perspective, alone a baby percent of the world’s citizenry will accept the adventitious (and honor) to study… In those abate moments of abortion and difficulty, I animate you to bethink the absolution it is to accept done the kinds of things you accept done and to accept the assets and abutment to participate in the privileges of college education.[13]

[1] Emphasis mine. This article was originally a address delivered by Warfield at Princeton Apostolic Seminary in October 4, 1911. The article can be accessed online for chargeless actuality https://www.tms.edu/m/tmsj6g.pdf and in a accessible abridged anatomy actuality https://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/SpiritualFormation/Texts/Warfield_ReligiousLifeOfTheologicalStudents/Warfield_ReligiousLifeOfTheologicalStudents.pdf. The album can additionally still be purchased.

[2] The manth/math- basis has to do with learning, as in “polymath” – one who has abstruse much, in abounding areas.

[3] See Sota 22A, which describes the am ha’ aretz and includes, “Even if one recites Scripture and repeats Mishnah-sayings, but has not abounding aloft a adherent of sages, such a one is an am ha ares.”

[4] See Acts 7:22, “Moses was instructed in all the acumen of the Egyptians, and he was boss in his words and deeds.” Philo says that Moses, aloft in Pharaoh’s palace, was “worthy of a aristocratic education… accessory agilely to every assignment of every affectionate which could tend to the advance of his mind”(Vita Mos. 1.20–24; Charles Duke Yonge with Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged [Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995], 461).

[5] See Richard N. Longenecker, Galatians, vol. 41, WBC (Dallas: Word, 1990), 34, and David A. deSilva, The Letter to the Galatians, NICNT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018), 158. Recall additionally Agrippa, abashed by Paul’s erudition, charging, “Your abundant acquirements has fabricated you mad.” (Acts 26:24)

[6] Augustine accepted to God apropos the role of Ambrose in bringing Augustine to faith, “To him was I led by Thee, unknowing, that by him I ability be brought to Thee” (Confessions, 5.13; Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustine’s Confessions, vol.1, The Loeb Classical Library [London; New York: William Heinemann; Macmillan, 1912], 255). See books 5, 6, and 9 for Augustine’s altercation of the access of Ambrose aloft him.

[7] See Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Ability of Passion and Perseverance (New York: Scribner, 2016).

[8] Ibid, 3.

[9] Ibid, 73.

[10] Ibid, 253.

[11] Robert Goldenberg, “Akiba, Rabbi,” ed. David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 137.

[12] H. Jackson Brown, P.S. I Adulation You (Nashville: Routledge Hill, 1990), 13.

[13] Gupta, Nijay K.. Prepare, Succeed, Advance, Second Edition: A Guidebook for Accepting a PhD in Biblical Studies and Above (Cascade Books, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers. Kindle Edition), loc. 3061.

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