The Importance of Preaching in a Seminary

When you go through a master of divinity program usually three years in length one of those components at most of these seminaries is what are commonly called preaching labs or homolytics labs. You're critiqued both by your fellow students and by that professor and yet it is part of the process right? And if you were to get your degree and then you become the pastor of a local church that's when the meter starts running about preaching because you're not doing it by way of practice you're doing it by means of I'm the pastor of this church so a lot of counselors especially lay counselors even though certified don't lull themselves into believing they can take on the counseling world with their