Goals

The goals of City Seminary of Sacramento are twofold: to provide a classical theological seminary education for ministerial candidates, and to offer continuing theological education for those already active in the ministry.

The first of these goals is pursued through the development of a community of pastors and teachers dedicated to preparing for the gospel ministry those whom it pleases God to call.

Pastoral instruction shall include the fruits of biblical, theological, apologetic, historical, and practical studies.

The second goal is the provision of additional theological training for men already ordained to the gospel ministry, as well as other church officers and members, utilizing the resources of the institution to serve the continuing needs of the churches in the Sacramento region.

City Seminary of Sacramento, while committed to the historic doctrines of the Reformation, also finds within those historic doctrines a necessity for increased catholicity among those who confess Christ in our own age. We must demand from one another adherence to things “most surely believed among us,” while recognizing that we do not have complete unity of practice in the modern Church. Those of different theological emphases will find at City Seminary of Sacramento a classical education in Reformation theology that will serve as a firm foundation irrespective of denominational distinctives.

Instruction will include, but not be limited to, Biblical languages, history and exegesis, Biblical and systematic theology, church history, missions, sermon preparation and delivery, pastoral ministry, and church-planting, as well as other courses of a practical nature to assist and prepare candidates for gospel outreach.

Those currently serving in the ministry will also benefit, along with new students, from instruction in “practicing the peace of the church,” i.e., learning how to deal with conflicts in the local church in a biblical and God-honoring manner.

For those seeking more in-depth instruction in the Reformed faith, enrollment the Seminary’s Casimir College will provide courses in Reformed confessions and polity. In short, our purpose is to embrace all within the believing Church who seek to improve their theological knowledge and skills, while also offering a distinctive Reformed “track” for those more particularly seeking to serve in Reformed and Presbyterian ecclesiastical bodies.